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I'm surprised Lua isn't in this list. It is excessively tiny both in its implementation and its runtime, and I have used it in multiple projects often just by t

I'm surprised Lua isn't in this list. It is excessively tiny both in its implementation and its runtime, and I have used it in multiple projects often just by throwing its whole source code right in. It's also very minimalist in spirit, allowing you to turn off every single built-in function, so that you can use it as a sort of turing-complete alternative to JSON as a configuration language. Very cool little language.

zik 8y ago
Lua's very small by today's standards but it's huge compared to the languages being discussed here. Computers like the Altair 680 discussed here only had 1KB of ROM which is orders of magnitude away from being able to support Lua. Lua's minimum size is about 63KB. The "tiny" languages being discussed here are really, really tiny, and are also very limited in their capabilities compared to a language like Lua.