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Top 22 Go Embeddable Scripting Language Projects
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I've been a pretty happy Otto[1] user for a number of years now.
The article makes no comparisons seemingly? I'm curious if there'd be any reason to switch.
https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto
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Project mention: Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++ | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-05
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Project mention: Running a Javascript VM in Golang: Data Transforms via User Scripts | dev.to | 2024-06-28
Adding a JavaScript VM to the Go project turned out to be quite easy and allows easily customizable data transformations. The goja library provides an efficient and straightforward way to execute JavaScript code in Go without using V8/CGO. Another option would have been to use lua scripts via gopher-lua for example. That could be an idea for a future project.
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And yes I know that Grafana has a fork called Sobek that has ESM support, but it is tailored for k6 and they don't have plans for making it easier to use. [2]
[1] https://github.com/dop251/goja/issues/348
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Project mention: Lingo: A Go micro language framework for building Domain Specific Languages | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-24
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The python-esque sandboxed language is Starlark: https://github.com/google/starlark-go#documentation
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rulego
⛓️RuleGo is a lightweight, high-performance, embedded, next-generation component orchestration rule engine framework for Go.
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Gentee script programming language
Gentee - script programming language for automation. It uses VM and compiler written in Go (Golang).
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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).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Embeddable Scripting Language projects in Go? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | otto | 8,301 |
| 2 | expr | 6,846 |
| 3 | gopher-lua | 6,584 |
| 4 | goja | 6,142 |
| 5 | tengo | 3,627 |
| 6 | go-lua | 3,255 |
| 7 | cel-go | 2,538 |
| 8 | starlark-go | 2,469 |
| 9 | anko | 1,496 |
| 10 | rulego | 1,085 |
| 11 | go-php | 941 |
| 12 | risor | 794 |
| 13 | gval | 785 |
| 14 | prolog | 675 |
| 15 | gisp | 521 |
| 16 | Gentee script programming language | 140 |
| 17 | The uGO Language | 112 |
| 18 | binder | 77 |
| 19 | ecal | 44 |
| 20 | purl | 41 |
| 21 | ngaro | 30 |
| 22 | mosalat | 11 |
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