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Is there a good general-ish purpose scripting language (something like Lua on the smaller end or Python on the bigger) that’s implemented in only Rust, ideally with a relatively low number of dependencies?

Have you used it yourself, if so for what and what was your experience?

Bonus points if it’s reasonably fast (ideally JITed, though I’m not sure if that’s been done at all in Rust).

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago
[-] BB_C@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

I don't know how I didn't register the existence of roc.
I'm reading through the tutorial, and it looks very interesting.

[-] KillTheMule@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago
[-] amanda@aggregatet.org 2 points 1 month ago

According to the readme, that’s Lua bindings and not the language itself, that’s probably why it’s not on the list since it wasn’t written in Rust.

[-] KillTheMule@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

That might indeed be the case, I did not look very closely, but mlua has gotten quite some coverage (and I do like lua quite a bit), so I wanted it mentioned :)

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