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> Sparkling All these "Let's do Lua, but right" languages fill me with both hope AND dread. This also shows what Lua could have become if a few more bold decis

> Sparkling All these "Let's do Lua, but right" languages fill me with both hope AND dread. This also shows what Lua could have become if a few more bold decisions were made. But I guess without a large commercial entity behind it, that was inevitable. Is there list of lua-ish (especially wrt. speed and easy C integration) languages somewhere? I did not know this one for example.

engineer331 8y ago
You might want to check out Squirrel[1]. It has some major differences when compared to Lua[2], such as a C-style syntax and true objects, but like Lua is known for easy embedding in C and C++. The Source Engine includes Squirrel as one of its supported scripting languages[3], and it's used in non-gaming applications such as the Code::Blocks IDE. [1]: http://squirrel-lang.org/ http://squirrel-lang.org/ [2]: http://wiki.squirrel-lang.org/mainsite/Wiki/default.aspx/SquirrelWiki/Lua%20Compared%20to%20Squirrel.html http://wiki.squirrel-lang.org/mainsite/Wiki/default.aspx/Squ... [3]: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Squirrel https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Squirrel
- mingodad 8y ago
  There is also a squirrel fork SquiLu[1] that add some Lua code (like pattern matching, some stdlib), extend it with string IO, have several extensions (sqlite3, http server, mpdecimal, axtls, curl, ...), accept a subset of Javascript/Java/C/C++, ... [1]:https://github.com/mingodad/squilu https://github.com/mingodad/squilu