Try instantiating engine directly

Author: hanslovsky

pom.xml

@@ -124,6 +124,11 @@ Wisconsin-Madison.</license.copyrightOwners>
 			<artifactId>kotlin-scripting-jsr223</artifactId>
 			<version>${kotlin.version}</version>
 		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.jetbrains.kotlin</groupId>
+			<artifactId>kotlin-script-util</artifactId>
+			<version>${kotlin.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
 
 		<!-- Test dependencies -->
 		<dependency>

src/main/kotlin/org/scijava/plugins/scripting/kotlin/KotlinScriptLanguage.kt

@@ -29,12 +29,22 @@
  */
 package org.scijava.plugins.scripting.kotlin
 
-import org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.repl.KotlinJsr223JvmScriptEngineFactoryBase
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.repl.*
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.com.intellij.openapi.util.Disposer
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.script.jsr223.KotlinJsr223JvmDaemonCompileScriptEngine
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.script.jsr223.KotlinJsr223JvmLocalScriptEngine
+import org.jetbrains.kotlin.script.jsr223.KotlinStandardJsr223ScriptTemplate
 import org.scijava.plugin.Plugin
 import org.scijava.script.AdaptedScriptLanguage
 import org.scijava.script.ScriptLanguage
 import java.io.Reader
+import java.lang.Exception
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger
+import java.util.concurrent.locks.ReentrantReadWriteLock
 import javax.script.*
+import kotlin.script.experimental.jvm.util.KotlinJars
+import kotlin.script.experimental.jvm.util.scriptCompilationClasspathFromContext
+import kotlin.system.exitProcess
 
 /**
  * A SciJava [ScriptLanguage] for Kotlin.
@@ -53,7 +63,22 @@ class KotlinScriptLanguage : AdaptedScriptLanguage(Factory()) {
 
     class Factory : KotlinJsr223JvmScriptEngineFactoryBase() {
         override fun getScriptEngine(): ScriptEngine {
-            return SynchronizedScriptEngine(ScriptEngineManager().getEngineByExtension("kts"))
+            return SynchronizedScriptEngine(
+//                KotlinJsr223JvmDaemonCompileScriptEngine(
+//                    this,
+//                    KotlinJars.compilerWithScriptingClasspath,
+//                    scriptCompilationClasspathFromContext("kotlin-script-util.jar", wholeClasspath = true),
+//                    KotlinStandardJsr223ScriptTemplate::class.qualifiedName!!,
+//                    { ctx, types -> ScriptArgsWithTypes(arrayOf(ctx.getBindings(ScriptContext.ENGINE_SCOPE)), types ?: emptyArray()) },
+//                    arrayOf(Bindings::class)
+//                )
+                KotlinJsr223JvmLocalScriptEngine(
+                    this,
+                    scriptCompilationClasspathFromContext("kotlin-script-util.jar", wholeClasspath = true),
+                    KotlinStandardJsr223ScriptTemplate::class.qualifiedName!!,
+                    { ctx, types -> ScriptArgsWithTypes(arrayOf(ctx.getBindings(ScriptContext.ENGINE_SCOPE)), types ?: emptyArray()) },
+                    arrayOf(Bindings::class))
+            )
         }
     }