Wren Alternatives
Similar projects and alternatives to Wren
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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. (by LuaDist)
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Duktape
Duktape - embeddable Javascript engine with a focus on portability and compact footprint
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ChakraCore
ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. [Moved to: https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore] (by Microsoft)
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hydro-sdk
Author Flutter experiences in Typescript. No native bridge, no V8. Just Dart. From runtime to virtual machine.
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Scout APM
Scout APM: A developer's best friend. Try free for 14-days. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.
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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:
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electron-react-boilerplate
A Foundation for Scalable Cross-Platform Apps
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Nim
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
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immer
Postmodern immutable and persistent data structures for C++ — value semantics at scale (by arximboldi)
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Reviews and mentions
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What's a good open source project for learning about programming languages?
And as a follow-up to this, the wonderful Wren, which has some neat extensions to the work done in Crafting Interpreters.
- Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language
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Benchmarks or analysis of pointer tagging
I'd probably check out wren for just a generally better implementation as mine is essentially based on it's https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/blob/main/src/vm/wren_value.h.
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What was your favourite programming language before Rust?
I'm still watching Wren, because in my eyes it is just Lua but with some modern additions and nicer syntax. All I need is a use-case...
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Senegal Programming Language
As always, all languages, especially the new one, should have a "why" section. For now there is:
> Senegal is a powerful, small-but-fast, concurrent, class-based, and dynamically-typed programming language with a modern syntax.
I think the closest thing to it is Wren? https://wren.io/. The difference being that Senegal is compiled and Wren is interpreted.
A few things of interest:
- there are exceptions
- you can call some C code: https://lang-senegal.web.app/docs/cimport
- you can "enhance" (monkey patch?) classes: https://lang-senegal.web.app/docs/enhance
- classic C-style for, while, switch keywords
- there's a pipeline operator, but it's https://lang-senegal.web.app/docs/pipeline
- the reference to "switch statements" probably means that switch and if are statements, not expressions
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Lua is the best scripting language.
Try wren. Faster than Lua and fixes the many messy stuff you just mentioned.
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Have any of you ever created your own programming languages as a hobby/learning experience?
I was reading about some of the languages created by Bob Nystrom, such as Finch, Wren, Vigil and Magpie, mainly after seeing a new Wren track on exorcism and checking the language out. Yet that got me thinking, do many people create programming languages for a hobby/learning experience?
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Joker
Caveat: I've barely used Go personally.
Just speculating on what GP specifically meant, but Go lacks the ability to pack structs, and probably lacks the equivalent of tricks like computed gotos [0] to increase bytecode interpreter speeds. In general, Go seems to (intentionally) lack a lot of low-level control of code generation, preferring a "there's one way to do things, and it either works, or it's a bug we'll fix" approach.
Which is probably for the best in "most" software, but interpreters typically use weird hacks to squeeze more performance out of the rock. Wren is a good example [1] of some of these optimizations, and has splendid comments/documentation.
[0] https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2012/07/12/computed-goto-for-e...
[1] https://github.com/wren-lang/wren/blob/main/src/vm/wren_vm.c
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lua as scripting language (and alternative to POSIX sh)
If speed is really a concern (seldomly it is, since most of the time is spent executing the programs in shells, not the scripting part) you can use Wren or LuaJIT, Wren is a faster language but it's not as compatible as Lua (it uses some tricks like NaN-tagging which needs IEEE 754 double precision floating point type, and it needs a C99 compiler which is, while still widely available, not present on every system unlike a C89 compiler) and LuaJIT is even less compatible (it's compatible with most major platforms, tho) but if you use its builtin FFI, you may even get more-than-C speeds! LuaJIT is also only Lua 5.1 compatible unfortunately.
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Wren Playground
A simple playground for playing with Wren
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Idea: Demorgan Type
This conversation in Wren issues made me search for an alternative naming for Bools that considers 0 as false.
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Embedding Dart
One suggestion: https://wren.io
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Best small language to play around with
I've had a look at Nim and V, but I'm not too fond of Nim's syntax and its reliance on C. I like V, but it's a very young language and has very little text editor support (syntax highlighting and the like). I've looked at Wren, but it seems to be designed for embedding in C.
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Little-Lang
Curious on performance benchmarks. For me, I'm comparing this to wren:
Stats
wren-lang/wren is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
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