Scripting Languages of the Future

1. passerine

   1 10 1,075 2.6 Rust

   A small extensible programming language designed for concise expression with little code.

   

   Tossing my hat in for Passerine [1]. Gorgeous ML inspired syntax. Built for scripting Rust applications.

   Dreaming here: Lua is a fantastic scripting language, but the Rust FFI isn’t as ergonomic as it could be. Enter Luster [2], which is basically LuaJIT rewritten in Rust.

   Embedding a scripting language in a Rust application gives you tons of power (e.g. scripting Rust structs from Lua [3]), and setting this up isn’t terribly difficult.

   [1] https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine

   [2]: https://github.com/kyren/luster

   [3]: https://git.sr.ht/~ioiojo/kiwi

2. InfluxDB

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3. piccolo

   2 7 1,977 7.4 Rust

   An experimental stackless Lua VM implemented in pure Rust (by kyren)

   

   Tossing my hat in for Passerine [1]. Gorgeous ML inspired syntax. Built for scripting Rust applications.

   Dreaming here: Lua is a fantastic scripting language, but the Rust FFI isn’t as ergonomic as it could be. Enter Luster [2], which is basically LuaJIT rewritten in Rust.

   Embedding a scripting language in a Rust application gives you tons of power (e.g. scripting Rust structs from Lua [3]), and setting this up isn’t terribly difficult.

   [1] https://github.com/vrtbl/passerine

   [2]: https://github.com/kyren/luster

   [3]: https://git.sr.ht/~ioiojo/kiwi

4. shelljs

   3 28 14,363 8.3 JavaScript

   :shell: Portable Unix shell commands for Node.js

   

5. zx

   4 124 44,332 9.5 JavaScript

   A tool for writing better scripts

   

6. empirical-lang

   5 7 173 1.8 C++

   A language for time-series analysis

   

   Some of the OP's observations are why I wrote Empirical [1].

   - I wanted static types that felt dynamic, which meant being able to infer types from a file as long as the file path can be determined at compile time.

   - I wanted Dataframes to be a first-class container since the high-level of abstraction leads to great performance when doing analytics.

   Therefore, I created a language with statically typed Dataframes. Empirical can infer a CSV's type at compile time, namely because performs compile-time function evaluation automatically. The result is a language that runs easily in a REPL but can be used for long-running scripts without worrying about common programming errors.

   [1] https://www.empirical-soft.com

7. TablaM

   6 158 203 0.0 Rust

   The practical relational programing language for data-oriented applications

   

   Don't get too focused on "scripting". making one today and you learn quickly, that scripting/compiled is blurred. Eventually, both will borrow a little of the other to be more performant or useful.

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   I'm building on the side one (https://tablam.org) that is focused in the "crud" kind of apps and exist a lot of low-hanging fruit there. Simple stuff like making the paradigm relational/array from the start, support for decimals (and money and quantities?), in-built auto-vectorization (that comes almost for free when adding a bit of array languages) and a lot of other stuff I can't even explored yet.

   Current scripting languages are not there yet in ergonomic or features to the kind of apps we actually do (ie: The popular ones, you bet niche experiments like mine are there on way or another).

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   And the gam is even harder today. In the article is mentioned better support for IDEs, that is more thought that I have expected!. This requiere a more sophisticate parsing pipeline and not much experience there around!.

   Also: Concurrency/parallelims. I don't think exist a truly nice ergonomic there. Sure, async/await is a little better, but none of the things I have experienced (with exception of SQL and magic) is something I could give to a "scripting user". You still need a complicated understanding of this, plus how express that in code.

8. langs-in-rust

   7 13 969 5.4 Python

   A list of programming languages implemented in Rust, for inspiration.

   

   For anyone interested in languages written in Rust, here’s a list: https://github.com/alilleybrinker/langs-in-rust

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10. xonsh

    8 125 8,871 9.2 Python

    :shell: Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.

    

11. proposal-record-tuple

    9 83 2,543 2.7 HTML

    Discontinued ECMAScript proposal for the Record and Tuple value types. | Stage 2: it will change!

    

    There's a proposal for immutable records and tuples: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple

    Theoretically they would use structural sharing for their implementation which should reduce the overhead of creating a whole new array of objects like that

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