Hacker News: jaccomohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jaccomoHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 04 Sep 2026 06:22:15 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jaccomo in "Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom"]]>Author here: Jactl is a secure embeddable scripting language that compiles to bytecode and supports Java 8 and later versions. The article describes how Continuations were used to provide Virtual Thread-like behaviour for scripts. Blocking operations suspend a script which is then resumed from where it left off once the operation completes.

]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:40:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522642jaccomohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522642https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522642<![CDATA[Virtual Threads for a scripting language in Java 8 without Loom]]>Article URL: https://jactl.io/blog/2026/08/28/jactl-virtual-threads

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522611

Points: 22

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]]>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:36:58 +0000https://jactl.io/blog/2026/08/28/jactl-virtual-threadsjaccomohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522611https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49522611<![CDATA[New comment by jaccomo in "Show HN: Jactl – open-source, secure, non-blocking script language for Java"]]>The continuation is only invoked once when a blocking operation completes so the print(5) would only be run once.

]]>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:12:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38472113jaccomohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38472113https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38472113<![CDATA[Show HN: Jactl – open-source, secure, non-blocking script language for Java]]>Article URL: https://github.com/jaccomoc/jactl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361089

Points: 5

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]]>Tue, 21 Nov 2023 08:49:18 +0000https://github.com/jaccomoc/jactljaccomohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361089https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38361089<![CDATA[Jactl – a scripting language for real-time Java applications]]>Article URL: https://jactl.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345385

Points: 3

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]]>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 09:29:47 +0000https://jactl.io/jaccomohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345385https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345385