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Top 23 C scripting-language Projects
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Lua
Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.
Project mention: Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf] | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-21 -
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berry
A ultra-lightweight embedded scripting language optimized for microcontrollers. (by berry-lang)
Project mention: Why Lua Beats MicroPython for Serious Embedded Devs | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-13I am currently working on an embedded system with 264Kb of RAM and 4Mb of flash. Do you think Lua could be used in such limited settings? I am also considering The berry scripting language [0]
[0] https://berry-lang.github.io/
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bolt
High-performance, real-time optimized, and statically typed embedded language implemented in C. (by Beariish)
Project mention: Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-10That's definitely not universally true, with even the core library getting into the "null indicates error" game https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/0.1.0/doc/Bolt%20Stand... or this fun middle ground where it could be Error or null https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/0.1.0/doc/Bolt%20Stand...
But I think OP was asking about whatever the hell this means by "native error callback" https://github.com/Beariish/bolt/blob/0.1.0/doc/Bolt%20Stand...
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my_basic
A lightweight BASIC interpreter written in standard C in dual files. Aims to be embeddable, extendable and portable.
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Project mention: The Tcl Programming Language: A Comprehensive Guide (2nd Edition) | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-04
Funny that Tcl was mentioned today. I've recently been hacking on jimtcl[1] (a small footprint implementation of Tcl) to make objects multi-threaded safe, as that's the core language that folk.computer[2] uses (the main authors are making the interpreter and reactive DB parallelizable rn, so I've been tinkering with how to reduce copying).
[1] https://github.com/msteveb/jimtcl
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SmallBASIC
SmallBASIC is a fast and easy to learn BASIC language interpreter ideal for everyday calculations, scripts and prototypes. SmallBASIC includes trigonometric, matrices and algebra functions, a built in IDE, a powerful string library, system, sound, and graphic commands along with structured programming syntax
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C scripting-language discussion
C scripting-language related posts
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Show HN: Bolt – A super-fast, statically-typed scripting language written in C
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Berry Script: lightweight embedded scripting language for microcontrollers
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Compact Representations for Arrays in Lua [pdf]
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Daslang – The High Performance Programming Language
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DaScript renamed to Daslang – high-performance statically typed script language
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Ask HN: Thoughts on Tcl as a Language in 2024?
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Building a Wordle Clone with Lua! 🕹
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Index
What are some of the best open-source scripting-language projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Lua | 9,347 |
| 2 | gravity | 4,417 |
| 3 | pocketpy | 1,907 |
| 4 | pocketlang | 1,534 |
| 5 | umka-lang | 1,219 |
| 6 | berry | 957 |
| 7 | felix | 816 |
| 8 | bolt | 670 |
| 9 | my_basic | 544 |
| 10 | jimtcl | 485 |
| 11 | never | 449 |
| 12 | zForth | 390 |
| 13 | Dictu | 270 |
| 14 | Toy | 254 |
| 15 | kinx | 236 |
| 16 | SmallBASIC | 222 |
| 17 | dao | 198 |
| 18 | QCVM | 165 |
| 19 | jstar | 122 |
| 20 | hook | 117 |
| 21 | squilu | 74 |
| 22 | yasl | 72 |
| 23 | promit | 50 |
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