ChaiScript vs luacxx

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ChaiScript		luacxx
	Project
7	Mentions	-
2,878	Stars	155
0.7%	Growth	-
3.7	Activity	0.0
about 2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 6 years ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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ChaiScript

Posts with mentions or reviews of ChaiScript. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-12.

Using C++ as a scripting language, part 6
4 projects | /r/cpp | 12 Dec 2022
How to use C++ as the core language for a Fantasy Console?
1 project | /r/cpp_questions | 15 Nov 2021

If you want to use C++ for scripting, take a look at Jason Turner's ChaiScript
Enabling C/C++ compilation in an application.
4 projects | /r/cpp | 1 May 2021

3) Similiar to 2, but use more common scripting languages: chai, cs-script, sol2 (c++ framework to embed lua)
ArkScript, a language designed to be used in C++ projects, now has macros
3 projects | /r/cpp | 26 Mar 2021

A few years back I actually went and made a ChaiScript based video game engine (https://16bpp.net/blog/post/masala-a-chaiscript-game-engine/). The end goal for it was to be able to make a Pacman like clone, but have all of the game logic implemented in ChaiScript. I actually found out as I added more realtime elements (implemented in ChaiScript) that it started to take much longer to process the game logic; the "game loop FPS" was under 60, which is not good. I actually proposition that ChaiScript move to a bytecode VM (https://github.com/ChaiScript/ChaiScript/issues/266), but I'm guessing that no movement was made on that front.
Is it advisable to embed python in c++ ? Have anyone tried it, what is the best way to do it?
2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 26 Mar 2021
Looking for a codegen library that uses C++ for scripting
3 projects | /r/cpp | 10 Mar 2021

Maybe ChaiScript? It is not exactly what you are looking for, but very similar, in my opinion.

luacxx

Posts with mentions or reviews of luacxx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning luacxx yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ChaiScript and luacxx you can also consider the following projects:

Lua - Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

V8 - The official mirror of the V8 Git repository

sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:

Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint

v8pp - Bind C++ functions and classes into V8 JavaScript engine

squirrel - Official repository for the programming language Squirrel

Wren - The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language.

shpp - Call c++ functions from a shell with any arguments of any types parsed automatically

tbing - Templates-based bindings and interfaces generator for C++