piccolo
passerine
| piccolo | passerine | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 10 | |
| 1,464 | 1,029 | |
| 15.5% | 0.5% | |
| 8.9 | 0.0 | |
| about 16 hours ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Creative Commons Zero v1.0 Universal | MIT License |
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piccolo
- Piccolo – experimental Lua VM implemented in pure Rust
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Lua: The Little Language That Could
There's Lua implementation [1] in pure Rust, by the way.
[1] https://github.com/triplehex/piccolo
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Do Rust and Lua work well together?
The rust ecosystem is doubling down on wasm with little to no focus on lua (some would even prefer to build their own programming language) that doesn’t mean lua is pretty bad for the rust ecosystem it’s just that there’s no much focus as to compared to wasm Example I noticed is https://github.com/kyren/luster
- Writing a minimal Lua implementation with a virtual machine from scratch in Rust
- Lua: Good, Bad, and Ugly Parts
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Scripting Languages of the Future
Tossing my hat in for Passerine [1]. Gorgeous ML inspired syntax. Built for scripting Rust applications.
Dreaming here: Lua is a fantastic scripting language, but the Rust FFI isn’t as ergonomic as it could be. Enter Luster [2], which is basically LuaJIT rewritten in Rust.
Embedding a scripting language in a Rust application gives you tons of power (e.g. scripting Rust structs from Lua [3]), and setting this up isn’t terribly difficult.
[1] https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine
[2]: https://github.com/kyren/luster
[3]: https://git.sr.ht/~ioiojo/kiwi
passerine
- Passerine: A small functional scripting language with macros, powered by Rust
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The absurd complexity of server-side rendering
It's still a long way from being complete, but I'm working on something like that[0]. Eventual plans are to have good Rust library interop (e.g. bindings to hyper for http) while also being able to compile to Wasm (to run on an erlang-style distributed runtime / the browser). The language is currently interpreted, but one I get typechecking working, I should be able to merge in the Wasm codegen backend I'm working on (with eventual plans for LLVM). Current compiler has zero external dependencies.
Language itself could be described as a mix of OCaml, Scheme, and Lua. Currently working on the hygienic procedural macro system and system injection through algebraic effects.
[0]: https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine
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I wrote a Cozy Programming language
Passerine was the next language i decided to try to fit onto paka, but alas this one too was eventually put aside for the time being.
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Scripting Languages of the Future
Tossing my hat in for Passerine [1]. Gorgeous ML inspired syntax. Built for scripting Rust applications.
Dreaming here: Lua is a fantastic scripting language, but the Rust FFI isn’t as ergonomic as it could be. Enter Luster [2], which is basically LuaJIT rewritten in Rust.
Embedding a scripting language in a Rust application gives you tons of power (e.g. scripting Rust structs from Lua [3]), and setting this up isn’t terribly difficult.
[1] https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine
[2]: https://github.com/kyren/luster
[3]: https://git.sr.ht/~ioiojo/kiwi
- GitHub - vrtbl/passerine: A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code.
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Extensible syntax?
Seed7 and https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine (and seemingly more as others have suggested) have direct / first-class support of syntax declaration/definition in a homoiconic way, as powerful as LISPs, but feels more "natural" compared to a LISP.
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Achieving nullable ergonomics with a real optional type without special compiler privileges.
It used to work pretty well only if the core PL makes semicolons programmable, but given the development of effect systems, plus customizable syntax as in https://github.com/ThomasMertes/seed7 and https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine , I'd say, there are much more we can do about it.
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Passerine: An extensible and expressive new programming language
git clone https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine
- Passerine — extensible functional scripting langauge — 0.9.0 Released!
What are some alternatives?
lua-cmake - Embed lua with CMake
dapr - Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.
lua-lockbox - A collection of cryptographic primitives written in pure Lua
dmd - dmd D Programming Language compiler
moonsharp - An interpreter for the Lua language, written entirely in C# for the .NET, Mono, Xamarin and Unity3D platforms, including handy remote debugger facilities.
xvm - Ecstasy and XVM
luau - A fast, small, safe, gradually typed embeddable scripting language derived from Lua
langs-in-rust - A list of programming languages implemented in Rust, for inspiration.
empirical-lang - A language for time-series analysis
seed7 - Source code of Seed7
gopher-lua - GopherLua: VM and compiler for Lua in Go
TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.