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gravity
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small-vm
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Project and blog criticism
The accompanying virtual machine : https://github.com/Nathan-Furnal/small-vm
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.
What are some alternatives?
RVVM - The RISC-V Virtual Machine
umka-lang - Umka: a statically typed embeddable scripting language
libforth - libforth: A small Forth interpreter that can be used as a library written in c99
blade - A modern general-purpose programming language focused on enterprise Web, IoT, and secure application development.
lc3-in-lc3 - A metacircular LC3 implementation
luaforwindows - Lua for Windows is a 'batteries included environment' for the Lua scripting language on Windows. NOTICE: Looking for maintainer.
jstar - A lightweight embeddable scripting language
tl - The compiler for Teal, a typed dialect of Lua
inspect.lua - Human-readable representation of Lua tables
zForth - zForth: tiny, embeddable, flexible, compact Forth scripting language for embedded systems
yyjson - The fastest JSON library in C