civlua VS ucode

http://civboot.org is basically trying to answer exactly this question

I'm designing a simple dev environment from scratch.

My solution for this is a sandboxed lua for programatic configuration:

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/lib/luck

I can't stand JSON (for many reasons) so I created a serialization format that combines it and CSV for nested objects

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/lib/tso

I wish the industry would standardize on a solution like this. IMO you shouldn't use a "real" language unless you can lock it down to be determinisitic. JSON is supposed to be human readable but fails for lots of real-world data like multi-line strings or lists of records.

CSV is more readable but doesn't supported nested objects.

Have you tried for any length of time?

For example, there's lots of little places where aligning keywords helps clarify code

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ds/ds.lua#L89

Formatters HATE putting multiple statements on a single line, but when they go it makes it so much easier to parse (for a person)

I've built a lua-based markdown which is more sane (from a programmer's PoV) than markdown but still concise

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/tree/main/cxt

I'm planning on supporting syntax highlighting. I could imagine creating a cxx that does what LuaX is doing, except it would support rendering to the command line as well as html.

Want to team up?

Reading "big features" like "multi line input" makes me feel more than ever that we really need an ultra light weight embeddedable text editor.

I wrote one, and while it's not yet complete I can say it's really _not that hard_

https://github.com/civboot/civlua/blob/main/ele/README.md

Sam was one of my main inspirations in starting http://civboot.org. Awesome to see he's managed to make his own chip now!

It's not a tutorial by any means, but the openwrt project has been working on ucode[0].

Tiny JavaScript-like interpreter. It's pretty small. You might be able to glean insight.

Presumably the source for this project would be insightful as well. It appears like there is more code for berry script compared to ucode though.

[0]: https://github.com/jow-/ucode