From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/3954 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luca Barbato Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Squirrel - no-bloat scripting language with sane syntax and semantics Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:29:22 +0200 Message-ID: <52186EE2.8020407@gentoo.org> References: <20130824001118.5be5b3d7@x34f> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377332965 9308 80.91.229.3 (24 Aug 2013 08:29:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 08:29:25 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-3958-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Aug 24 10:29:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VD9Ds-0005EL-HI for gllmg-musl@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Aug 2013 10:29:28 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 28440 invoked by uid 550); 24 Aug 2013 08:29:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 28432 invoked from network); 24 Aug 2013 08:29:26 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130411 Thunderbird/17.0.5 In-Reply-To: <20130824001118.5be5b3d7@x34f> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:3954 Archived-At: On 23/08/13 23:11, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > Hello, > > I apologize if this message can be considered off-topic. However, my > reading thru mailing list archive showed that there's favorable > attitude to generic no-bloat stuff, so I hope this message may be of > interest to some readers. > > I'd like to draw attention to small very high level (meaning that > there's native support for lists and maps) language "Squirrel", > http://squirrel-lang.org/ . It compiles below 300K (dynamic linking) > with -O2 and can be gotten under 200K with -Os -flto (sizes are for > i386). It uses C-like syntax, so should be a quick start for many folks. Looks impressively similar to Pawn[1], with the cons of being written in C++ (thus limiting its usage to places where C++ is available), lua (and moonscript) are getting more and more traction in this field and there are lean enough implementations. lu [1] http://www.compuphase.com/pawn/pawn.htm