The Nashorn team has no plans but you might check the GraalVM https://www.graalvm.org project to see what they might have in this area.
Cheers, — Jim > On Aug 9, 2018, at 7:01 AM, Erko Knoll <erko.kn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Great job with Nashorn, I really love it. However, based on the blog post > of > https://blogs.oracle.com/nashorn/nashorn-architecture-and-performance-improvements-in-the-upcoming-jdk-8u40-release > I would like to ask if there are any plans to natively support TypeScript > in the future. > > The reason I'm asking is because I built a product that allows to do > TypeScript scripting for JVM. But currently I'm transpiling TypeScript down > to ES5 so Nashorn would be able to ingest it. For obvious performance gain > reasons it would be really cool if type information could be retained from > TypeScript side. > > If you are interested how writing TypeScript currently looks like for JVM, > then you can visit the website: http://hyperionscripting.com/. Though it is > built for JIRA that is written in Java, then the same approach could be > applied for any JVM application. > > Hoping to hear back, > Erko
