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. (by LuaDist)
Wren
The Wren Programming Language. Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language. (by wren-lang)
| Lua | Wren | |
|---|---|---|
| - | 45 | |
| 1,353 | 6,848 | |
| - | 0.3% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| almost 11 years ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C | Wren | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
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.
Lua
Posts with mentions or reviews of Lua.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning Lua yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
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 2024-06-12.
- Ask HN: What non-mainstream programming languages are you checking out?
- 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
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Lua and Wren you can also consider the following projects:
ChaiScript - Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
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:
luacxx - C++11 API for creating Lua bindings
ChakraCore - ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. [Moved to: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore]
Cython - The most widely used Python to C compiler