Dear Attila, i was just evaluating a switch of our huge codebase written in Javascript using the Rhino interpreter to Nashorn. We have utility classes written in Java that are are passed as objects to help users write less code in JS, because that is why we use JS in the first place. Those utility objects also contain frequently used static methods. Your design decisions will make it impossible for us to switch.
Not only will we have to rewrite our code, we also will have to make separate calls to "handles" the user already has. This is against my design decision to pursue the ideal of "literate programming". The ideal to make code more readable is broken here. I agree with Tal Liron that if a programmer wants to use Java, they would. We use Javascript because of the shorthand and the goal towards cleaner code without loosing the power of using Java where need be. I felt offended to be called a "Creature". I hope I misinterpret you sentence here . Two years have passed since this post. Have you changed your mind since? Will there be at least a "strict" switch like suggested by tal? Thanks Christoph
