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gravity | heart | |
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4 | 5 | |
4,268 | 82 | |
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5.1 | 0.0 | |
9 months ago | over 1 year ago | |
C | Go | |
MIT License | Mozilla Public License 2.0 |
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gravity
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Ask HN: Parrot language copycat my Gravity source code. What can I do?
I found out that the Parrot programming language (https://github.com/parrot-language/parrot) did copycat line by line my Gravity programming language (https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity).
I know that I used a very permissive license and that the project can be forked and modified by anyone but this is a theft more than a fork.
What can I do in this situation?
- When does garbage collector start in Gravity?
- Binding a Language to Gravity
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Lua's Lack of “Batteries”
This is gonna be subjective, because it depends on what your priorities are.
The two alternatives at the top of my list are Gravity and Wren. They are both designed for the same general profile that Lua has—a scripting language, safe to use, embeddable, with a small VM (low code size).
- https://github.com/marcobambini/gravity
- https://wren.io/
The language design choices are nice and familiar to people who are used to other existing languages. Lua is a bit radical.
Two other options are AngelScript and Squirrel, which are both a bit older and more mature than Gravity and Wren. In my opinion they are
- http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/
- http://squirrel-lang.org/
Finally, it’s much more feasible these days to embed something like Mono, and Guile has gotten a lot better.
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Lua's Lack of “Batteries”
This is really timely article for me. I just chose to use Lua in a brand new project (https://github.com/Hyperspace-Logistics/heart) and lot of the criticism so far has been “why Lua?”
Personally I think it’s very capable language. It’s such a comfortable scripting language that I think nearly anybody could pick up and get up to speed pretty quickly. LuaJIT is also ridiculously powerful and so satisfyingly stable (Lua 5.1 for over a decade).
Heck Lua 5.1 even makes an excellent transpile target so you might not even need to use Lua to appreciate the software that runs on Lua.
- Heart - High performance Lua web server built with Go
- Heart - High performance Lua web server
- Show HN: Heart – High performance Lua web server
What are some alternatives?
umka-lang - Umka: a statically typed embeddable scripting language
luaforwindows - Lua for Windows is a 'batteries included environment' for the Lua scripting language on Windows. NOTICE: Looking for maintainer.
blade - A modern general-purpose programming language focused on enterprise Web, IoT, and secure application development.
pallene - Pallene Compiler
Penlight - A set of pure Lua libraries focusing on input data handling (such as reading configuration files), functional programming (such as map, reduce, placeholder expressions,etc), and OS path management. Much of the functionality is inspired by the Python standard libraries.
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
go-sse - Fully featured, spec-compliant HTML5 server-sent events library
inspect.lua - Human-readable representation of Lua tables
treemux - High-speed and flexible HTTP router for Go
zForth - zForth: tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth scripting language for embedded systems