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Top 23 C++ Scripting Projects
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Source Code: Key V8 APIs are defined in v8.h, isolate.cc, and api.cc (see V8 GitHub, version 12.5).
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Project mention: Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-30
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sol2
Sol3 (sol2 v3.0) - a C++ <-> Lua API wrapper with advanced features and top notch performance - is here, and it's great! Documentation:
Project mention: Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-06-30Is it possible to use Pluto alongside with a binding library such as Sol2[0]? I don't mind not being able to set type hints in the bindings to use in some IDE, I can create stubs for it manually.
[0]: https://github.com/ThePhD/sol2
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Since a quick ctrl-f didn’t find any mention here or on the README:
I assume the name is a reference to ChaiScript, which is a similar embedded language for C++.
https://github.com/ChaiScript/ChaiScript
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InfluxDB
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RE-UE4SS
Injectable LUA scripting system, SDK generator, live property editor and other dumping utilities for UE4/5 games
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mtasa-blue
Multi Theft Auto is a game engine that incorporates an extendable network play element into a proprietary commercial single-player game.
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open-builder
Open "Minecraft-like" game with multiplayer support and Lua scripting support for the both client and server
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Ark
ArkScript is a small, fast, functional and scripting language for C++ projects (by ArkScript-lang)
If you don't know me yet, I have been working on ArkScript for nearly 6 years now. ArkScript is a scripting language in modern C++, running on a custom virtual machine (like Python or Lua), with the goal of having a syntax easy to learn and use, a C++ interface to embed it in programs, and decent performances (without trying to be as fast as Lua though, Mike Pall is a genius and did outstanding work on LuaJIT).
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Cleny
Cleny is An Interpreted Coding Language Used To Facilitate UI Structuring And Styling For CLI Based Projects
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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 discussion
C++ Scripting related posts
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Pluto is a unique dialect of Lua with a focus on general-purpose programming
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Hidden Classes and Inline Caches in V8
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🚀⚙️ JavaScript Visualized: the JavaScript Engine
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Lua Is So Underrated
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Implementing computed gotos in C++
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Show HN: V8serialize – Read/write V8-serialized JavaScript values from Python
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Adding short-circuiting in a bytecode interpreter
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Scripting projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | V8 | 24,260 |
| 2 | AutoHotkey | 10,656 |
| 3 | CopyQ | 9,999 |
| 4 | luau | 4,602 |
| 5 | sol2 | 4,598 |
| 6 | REFramework | 3,882 |
| 7 | ChaiScript | 3,025 |
| 8 | nbind | 1,989 |
| 9 | RE-UE4SS | 1,908 |
| 10 | mtasa-blue | 1,529 |
| 11 | Panda3DS | 1,269 |
| 12 | v8pp | 937 |
| 13 | open-builder | 713 |
| 14 | RaZ | 664 |
| 15 | Ark | 648 |
| 16 | sfall | 377 |
| 17 | godot-sandbox | 303 |
| 18 | viewer | 240 |
| 19 | DotX64Dbg | 223 |
| 20 | luacxx | 156 |
| 21 | Cleny | 110 |
| 22 | nelson | 107 |
| 23 | wrenpp | 105 |
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