embedded-scripting-languages
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embedded-scripting-languages
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Steel – An embedded scheme interpreter in Rust
Hopefully the linked README provides a general overview (I know I need to write some more documentation!), but Steel is an implementation of the scheme programming language (not entirely compliant yet, but aiming for R5RS and R7RS compliance). It can be used as a standalone language via the interpreter/repl (like Python or Racket), or it can be embedded inside applications, like Lua. There are hundreds (thousands, probably) of embeddable languages, each with their own flavor - see a list compiled here for example https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages
Use cases are generally for either configuration, scripting, or plugins - so scripting in games, or adding extensions to your text editor without having to use FFI or RPC + serializing a bunch of data. The advantage it has over using dynamic libraries (in general) is it runs in the same process, and can access the internal data structures directly without a lot of ceremony involved. The downside is typically is not as fast as native code unless a JIT is involved.
Javascript is an example of an embedded scripting, where the browser is the host application.
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
> There is a huge opportunity, IMO, for more players here.
There are quite a few embeddable scripting languages [1]. I think these days it's less common to embed a language mostly because there are good high-level languages that applications can be predominantly written in.
[1] https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages
- Ask HN: Embeddable Value-Oriented Languages?
- Embedded Scripting Languages
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Simple statically typed language with value semantics?
I'm not a huge fan of Lua but I think it is at least way more popular and better on every measure than TCL. There are plenty of other better less well-known options too: Rhai, Wren, AngelScript, Starlark (for some use cases), etc. There's a good list here.
- Language Interpreter for Coding Game
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Choosing scripting extension - need advice
or perhaps use one of this list (depending on who's writing the configuration): https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages
- Ana is a Python, PHP, and C inspired dynamically typed scripting language
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How to implement an in-game programming language?
https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages (coincidentally, from a user whose name I recognize from the Tcl wiki)
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Ark
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Dealing with documentation
This results in two websites: - the documentation of the language on the "main" website, https://arkscript-lang.dev ; - the technical documentation (+ modules) on doxygen: https://arkscript-lang.dev/impl/
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November 2022 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
1: https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark 2: https://github.com/AFLplusplus/AFLplusplus
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Making your project available through Homebrew
# Documentation: https://docs.brew.sh/Formula-Cookbook # https://rubydoc.brew.sh/Formula # PLEASE REMOVE ALL GENERATED COMMENTS BEFORE SUBMITTING YOUR PULL REQUEST! class ArkscriptAT330 < Formula desc "" homepage "" license "" head "https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark.git" depends_on "cmake" => :build def install # ENV.deparallelize # if your formula fails when building in parallel system "cmake", "-S", ".", "-B", "build", *std_cmake_args system "cmake", "--build", "build" system "cmake", "--install", "build" end test do # `test do` will create, run in and delete a temporary directory. # # This test will fail and we won't accept that! For Homebrew/homebrew-core # this will need to be a test that verifies the functionality of the # software. Run the test with `brew test [email protected]`. Options passed # to `brew install` such as `--HEAD` also need to be provided to `brew test`. # # The installed folder is not in the path, so use the entire path to any # executables being tested: `system "#{bin}/program", "do", "something"`. system "false" end end
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Understanding tail-call optimization
Lately, I've been working on optimizations for my language, ArkScript, and finally take some time to add tail-call optimization to my compiler.
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Solving the stack problem
A nice and bigger example would be this one, a snake game: https://github.com/ArkScript-lang/Ark/blob/dev/examples/games/snake/snake.ark
- Contributed to some OSSs with pull-requests in this year too.
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July 2021 monthly "What are you working on?" thread
Still working on ArkScript after releasing the 3.1.0, improving the standard library, adding modules, and working on performance improvements + adding parallel builtins soon!
- ArkScript 3.1.0 is here with macro and UTF-8 support
- ArkScript 3.1.0 is here with macros and UTF-8
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GitHub actions are awesome
Until recently, when we wanted to create new releases for ArkScript, we had to build the language on all the system we support (currently Windows and Linux), build the modules (http, console, random, etc), test everything on each operating system, and then package the needed files and directory in ZIPs. We had to go to GitHub, create a new release, add the correct tag (and not mix it with the title as they are different things!), grep the latest changelog, and add our artifacts.
What are some alternatives?
grule-rule-engine - Rule engine implementation in Golang
Peregrine - A blazing fast language for the blazing fast world(WIP)
wasmer-go - 🐹🕸️ WebAssembly runtime for Go
hera - Hera: Ewasm virtual machine conforming to the EVMC API
starlight - a go wrapper for google's starlark embedded python language
fake-gcs-server - Google Cloud Storage emulator & testing library.
Rhai - Rhai - An embedded scripting language for Rust.
Feral - Feral programming language reference implementation
wazero - wazero: the zero dependency WebAssembly runtime for Go developers
boring-lang - A very boring programming language
otto - A JavaScript interpreter in Go (golang)
zhetapi - A C++ ML and numerical analysis API, with an accompanying scripting language.