The Detroit project envisioned using JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications. Now it’s being revived with the addition of Python.

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The Detroit project, originally designed to bridge Java and JavaScript by enabling JavaScript as an extension language for Java applications, is being revived after going dormant around 2018. A new proposal on the OpenJDK mailing list, led by Sundararajan Athijegannathan, aims to formalize it as an OpenJDK project. The revival includes a prototype using Chrome V8 for JavaScript and CPython for Python, rather than reimplementing the languages from scratch. The project also plans to leverage and push the Foreign Function & Memory (FFM) API, potentially influencing Project Panama. Votes from OpenJDK members are due by March 11.

Abandoned project linking Java, JavaScript makes a comeback

<p>Except there’s already GraalVM for that which includes GraalJS, GraalPy, and GraalWasm.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.graalvm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">https://www.graalvm.org/</a></p>
