jbang

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• Minor build bugfixes

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• --edit now generated vscode project where maven and gradle import are disabled to speed up import.

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• JAVA_HOME is now used if set to allow explicit control of which java/jshell/javac will be used by jbang
• --edit now generate IDE specific files for Eclipse and VSCode to make it faster to launch and less dependent on Gradle plugins being present.
• Added analytics.java example to show using Google Analytics API from Java
• Minor fixes.

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• Fixes to chocolatey packaging.
• Fix where empty classpath confused Windows/bat launches.

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• Fix bug where jbang <url> didn't get correct filenames which in turn made the java compiler unhappy as it insists filename = public classname

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• Ability to set java and javac options using //JAVA_OPTIONS and //JAVAC_OPTIONS. Useful for tuning memory, garbage collection and enable Java preview features.
• --verbose option to see what operations jbang does.

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• Bugfixes for build.

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• No functionality change but enabled push to chocolatey.

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• Fixes to make homebrew have consistent sha256

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• More examples from thanks to @brunoborges !
• Bug fix that was causing some issues on Windows especially a lack of closed .jar files

This release makes J'bang available on Windows and older versions of java.

• Now built to run on Java 8+
• Early Windows support by using bin/jbang.bat
• JShell/.jsh now supports getting arguments by having a String[] args globally available
• Faster startup on consecutive runs due to now doing compilation and jar creation work on older Java versions.

Give it at try, especially if you are on Windows I'm curious to hear if it works for you!