Jul 9, 2026 · 16 min · 10 segments
OpenJDK recently resurrected Project Detroit, an effort to ease Java's interoperability with Python and JavaScript. Interestingly, while both integrations will work through the \_java.scripting_ API…
Mikael VidstedtGuest
Nicolai ParlogHost
My name is Nikolaj Palok, and this episode of Ask the Architects is a short conversation with Michael Wittstedt, lead of the Java Virtual Machine team at Oracle, that we originally livestreamed from Java 1 in March 2026.
The topic is the recently resurrected Project Detroit, an OpenJDK effort to ease interop with Python and JavaScript.
We discuss Detroit's architectural approach, particularly in contrast to Nashorn, where the integrations of JavaScript and Python will be similar and where they will differ.
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