[didymospl]

Does anyone remember Groovy? It has @Grab annotation which does essentially the same as add-libs you described. Very conventient for writing scripts.

[vips7L]

Jbang has a similar feature: https://www.jbang.dev/documentation/guide/latest/dependencie...

[kagevf]

> Does anyone remember Groovy?

I recall that Atlassian had some kind of scripting console where you could run Groovy and interact with its API / objects. It was useful for exploring when writing plugins for bamboo or Jira ...

[kaba0]

Yes! Groovy does have quite a few under appreciated cool gems, and it’s a shame that is barely getting any attention nowadays..