I would use it as an extension language for a larger system. These commonly are used in games, databases, web servers, and text editors. You might: • Link Wren

I would use it as an extension language for a larger system. These commonly are used in games, databases, web servers, and text editors. You might: • Link Wren (or Lua or a little scheme interpreter) into your larger system. • Add some functions to Wren to access and manipulate the state of your larger system. (The sections on how to accomplish this are sadly marked as TODO in the Wren Reference manual.) • Add a mechanism to your larger system to invoke Wren scripts. Now instead of having to invent your own scripting system, or your own configuration system, or your own commands for every conceivable function a user wants, you can just expose the basics and let them build what they need. Sometimes you might even use a scripting system where the main program is much smaller than the scripting system. For instance, I have a daemon which manages power allocation at a remote installation. It is written in go, and includes the functions to turn various systems on and off, measure current and voltage at different places, and the bare minimums of getting in and out of failsafe modes. All the rest of the decisions about what to turn on and off when and which system depends on which other system is all specified in a Lisp interpreter extension language and a config file. The end result is I wrote no lines of code to handle configuration, and extending the configuration involves no changes to the server. (Except if it needs a new function, like I had to add "time of sunrise" and "time of sunset" to the server since that was more Lisp than I was comfortable with.) Even in my simple configurations there is logic which would either be a nightmare or impossible in an Apache style config file but is simple in Lisp, even for a non-Lisp programmer like myself. (I chose the Lisp because it was a tiny implementation and written in Go so it was easy to build in. Not because I like it.)