embedded-scripting-languages VS scittle

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.

> 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

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.

or perhaps use one of this list (depending on who's writing the configuration): https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages

https://github.com/dbohdan/embedded-scripting-languages (coincidentally, from a user whose name I recognize from the Tcl wiki)

Just to add another option, check out Scittle by borkdude (creator of babashka and many other things also worth using) https://babashka.org/scittle/

If you're looking to embed a lisp like language in webpages, you can use Scittle, which is a subset of Clojure, similar to babashka that is meant to be embedded in html:

https://github.com/babashka/scittle

I highly recommend shadow-cljs because it allows near seamless integration with NPM ecosystem. It's also worth noting that scittle works really well for small pages.

thanks! yeah, shoutout to scittle. it's really fun writing Clojure right in the browser

This is just a fun little thing to experiment with Clojurescript because I wanted to make code samples in a blog post I'm writing interactive/executable. I'm not sure if there's existing solutions that already do this, but like I said, this was a fun little experiment! Made possible by https://github.com/babashka/scittle, so thanks /u/borkdude!