gluon vs Wren

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gluon		Wren
	Project
7	Mentions	44
3,132	Stars	6,745
-	Growth	0.8%
6.8	Activity	0.0
6 months ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
JavaScript	Language	Wren
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

gluon

Posts with mentions or reviews of gluon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-18.

This year in Servo: over 1000 pull requests and beyond
9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2023
Gluon – create desktop apps from websites
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2023
Gluon - a new WIP framework for making desktop apps from webapps - but using system installed browsers and Node/Deno, focusing on developer experience and choice.
1 project | /r/javascript | 6 Jan 2023
Gluon - A new Electron-like framework but with a new approach
1 project | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023
Gluon: A New Node.js Framework to Create Desktop Apps
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2023
Gluon: a new Electron-like framework but using system installed browsers and NodeJS (WIP)
1 project | /r/webdev | 17 Dec 2022
Gluon: Electron-like framework but using system browsers with a new approach
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Dec 2022

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
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2024
Show HN: Wren – simple yet super extensible task management system
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Jan 2024

For a moment I thought it was about wren programming language... [1]
[1] https://wren.io/
Attempting each AOC in a language starting with each letter of the alphabet
6 projects | /r/adventofcode | 8 Dec 2023

For "W" you could use Wren.
loxcraft: a compiler, language server, and online playground for the Lox programming language
14 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 29 Apr 2023

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.
Bevy 0.10: data oriented game engine built in Rust
5 projects | /r/gamedev | 6 Mar 2023

Only kind of unrelated ... Every time I see the Bevy logo I'm reminded of Wren language https://wren.io/
Are they all like this?
1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 18 Feb 2023

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.
Most important language features not touched in the book "Crafting Interpreters"?
2 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 23 Dec 2022

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?
13 projects | /r/rust | 19 Nov 2022
Liberating the Smalltalk lurking in C and Unix
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Oct 2022
What are some good C programs I can read through?
3 projects | /r/C_Programming | 7 Sep 2022

The best C code I have ever read is that of wren.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gluon and Wren you can also consider the following projects:

vulcan-next - The Next starter for GraphQL developers

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.

jirax - :sunglasses: :computer: Simple and flexible CLI Tool for your daily JIRA activity (supported on all OSes)

LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository

firebase-signups-to-google-chat - Be notified of new signups in your app directly in Google Chat

ChaiScript - Embedded Scripting Language Designed for C++

neboa - Type-safe NoSQL with Node & SQLite. 🌫️💽

V8 - The official mirror of the V8 Git repository

github-star-search - A CLI that search your github starred repositories offline through README , description and other fields.

Duktape - Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint

pwa-asset-generator - Automates PWA asset generation and image declaration. Automatically generates icon and splash screen images, favicons and mstile images. Updates manifest.json and index.html files with the generated images according to Web App Manifest specs and Apple Human Interface guidelines.

ChakraCore - ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. [Moved to: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore]