Wren VS Pike

For a moment I thought it was about wren programming language... [1]

[1] https://wren.io/

For "W" you could use Wren.

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.

Only kind of unrelated ... Every time I see the Bevy logo I'm reminded of Wren language https://wren.io/

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.

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.

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

[LANGUAGE: Pike] (see https://pike.lysator.liu.se/)

I'd rather honour him.

I'm sure I remember Pike starting off as a literal C interpreter, but somewhere along the line decided to become it's own 'C-like' language.

https://pike.lysator.liu.se

Wikipedia seems to imply that it was separated out from LPmud's built-in 'C interpreter' which sounds about right.

In any other case, I dunno. I just like it cos it's basically LPC being used outside a MUD. Check out the site though, and maybe play with it too. pike.lysator.liu.se

Pike Programming Language\ (45 comments)

https://github.com/pikelang/Pike/blob/master/src/modules/Ino...

I guess it is more of packaging issue of using pike in that manner, perhaps this is something for the pikers to explore. Could be a great way to revitalize the language, the world could need a embedded strictly typed C like dynamic language.