ChaiScript
Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++ (by ChaiScript)
Wren
The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language. (by wren-lang)
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| ChaiScript | Wren | |
|---|---|---|
| 7 | 44 | |
| 2,878 | 6,745 | |
| 0.6% | 0.8% | |
| 3.7 | 0.0 | |
| about 2 months ago | 8 months ago | |
| C++ | Wren | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
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
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How to use C++ as the core language for a Fantasy Console?
If you want to use C++ for scripting, take a look at Jason Turner's ChaiScript
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Enabling C/C++ compilation in an application.
3) Similiar to 2, but use more common scripting languages: chai, cs-script, sol2 (c++ framework to embed lua)
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ArkScript, a language designed to be used in C++ projects, now has macros
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?
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Looking for a codegen library that uses C++ for scripting
Maybe ChaiScript? It is not exactly what you are looking for, but very similar, in my opinion.
Wren
Posts with mentions or reviews of Wren.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-24.
- Tinyssh
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Show HN: Wren – simple yet super extensible task management system
For a moment I thought it was about wren programming language... [1]
[1] https://wren.io/
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Attempting each AOC in a language starting with each letter of the alphabet
For "W" you could use Wren.
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loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
Bob Nystrom also has a blog, and his articles are really well written (see his post on Pratt parsers / garbage collectors). I'd also recommend going through the source code for Wren, it shares a lot of code with Lox. Despite the deceptive simplicity of the implementation, it (like Lox) is incredibly fast - it's a great way to learn how to build production grade compilers in general.
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Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
Only kind of unrelated ... Every time I see the Bevy logo I'm reminded of Wren language https://wren.io/
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Are they all like this?
If you want a pure C99 (sadly not C89 like Lua) immensely fast embeddable language pure interpreter, wren is a great language with excellent features like overload by arity. There is a huge maturity gap between the languages tho.
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Most important language features not touched in the book "Crafting Interpreters"?
Check out the source to Wren: https://wren.io. It’s from the author of Crafting Interpreters and builds directly on what’s discussed in the book (essentially a more complete Lox) and adds several additional types, including an array.
- Why does Rust have parameters on impl?
- Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix
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What are some good C programs I can read through?
The best C code I have ever read is that of wren.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ChaiScript and Wren 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
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
squirrel - Official repository for the programming language Squirrel
sol2 - Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:
ChakraCore - ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. [Moved to: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore]
luacxx - C++11 API for creating Lua bindings