A project to make JavaScript work better with Java is being kicked off with a boost from Oracle. Oracle’s multi-language lead Jim Laskey has announced Project Nashorn, which aims to build a lightweight, high-performance runtime in Java using the native Virtual Machine (JVM). Nashorn will start from scratch, using entirely new …

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Tuesday 27th November 2012 14:46 GMT Alan Bourke

You can already run JS on the server ...

using Rhino, you mean.

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Tuesday 27th November 2012 14:53 GMT Ru

Er, is this news?

Nashorn has been in the works for a while; its effectively been the test bed for a lot of the new dynamic language support coming into the JVM. The name of the project and its existence and goals have been public knowledge, so what else has changed?

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Tuesday 27th November 2012 14:54 GMT h3

"Nashorn will start from scratch, using entirely new code, according to Laskey, with initial source coming from an unnamed Oracle internal project." ???

Maybe I have a different view of starting from scratch. (It is not from scratch if code comes from anywhere else).

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Tuesday 27th November 2012 14:59 GMT Andrew Baines

Surely anything that extends the use of JavaScript is a bad thing?

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Tuesday 27th November 2012 15:09 GMT Anonymous Coward

Sadly for many (including a depressing number of my IT colleagues here) just knowing that Java and Javascript are two separate things will be a start...

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Tuesday 27th November 2012 15:15 GMT Anonymous Coward

"JavaScript is finding its way on to the server in particular, thanks to PHP"

Can anyone explain what the above means? It seems paradoxical to me.

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1. Tuesday 27th November 2012 16:49 GMT David Dawson
  
  Re: "JavaScript is finding its way on to the server in particular, thanks to PHP"
  
  Seems nonsense to me.
  
  What has PHP got to do with Javascript in any way shape or form?
  
  You may write a site using a JS front end and a PHP backend ... buts thats the only thing I can come up with, and that just ain't the same things as JS on the server, which is then properly discussed in the last bit of the article.
  
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Tuesday 27th November 2012 15:18 GMT Schnoerkelman

Boot nail: Nashorn is coincidentally the German word for Rhinoceros.

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1. Tuesday 27th November 2012 16:16 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  How is it pronounced?
  
  Is it Nash-orn or Nas-horn?
  
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  1. Tuesday 27th November 2012 19:02 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    Re: How is it pronounced?
    
    it's actually "NAHS-horn".
    
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