rust_lisp VS sol2

Well, the article is called "a simple Lisp", not "a fully featured Lisp". It's a demo, not a compliant implementation.

You may be interested by https://github.com/brundonsmith/rust_lisp though

So to compensate, strop will now be usable as a library. So I'm making a thing which pulls in strop as a dependency and gives you a dialect of lisp for you to specify your function in. In the future, perhaps I'll do the same with Python and maybe others. In this way, the end users will have a better way to specify what they want.

Plug: for fun I made a (less ambitious) version of this kind of thing for Rust which I ended up being pretty happy with

https://github.com/brundonsmith/rust_lisp

As someone said, make the game data-driven is a good first step but I will say, also have some sort of way to add additional game logic. For C++ games, lua is really easy to embed the interpreter in your C++ binary, read in the files from a directory (like /mods) with the C++ filesystem api new in C++17, and it's very easy to use SoL to write an API for lua specific to your game. Many games use lua in this way and it's probably the most common mod path setup.

I've only ever done this from C++, but it's using the same lua C library, so should be durable from C as well. You can look up how sol2 or any other wrapper libraries do it.

Consider sol2

This version relies on a Lua C++ wrapper called sol2 to hide Lua stack management from the developer, so creating new bindings can be done by adding a few lines of human-readable C++. It still has to be done manually, but at least sol2 is able to automatically figure out types of objects being bound, so it's not much different from our de-/serialization code.

Here's an example: sol2

Here is link number 2 - Previous text "Sol"

Have you considered using sol2? https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2 Or if you don't want to switch over, you can at least look at their code and see how they handle this.

It is half of a pun as I was inspired by [sol3](https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2) which is a lua <-> c++ wrapper. Sol means sun and the julia c-api prefixes all it's functions with jl, luna means moon so it is pronounced "jay luna"

If you want to be portable I'd recommend C++ and Lua, I used those for years and it runs on everything and there's this most amazing wrapper API which was a huge inspiration