Looking for a Lua alternative

IGotD- nise at nise.com
Thu Dec 14 15:44:21 UTC 2023


On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 15:04:40 UTC, Ogi wrote:
>
> [Squirrel](http://squirrel-lang.org/) comes to mind. It’s 
> similar to Lua but has a C-like syntax and some extra types and 
> features. It’s very lightweight; D bindings can be written in 
> half an hour, and the entire C++ code base is just 7k lines of 
> code. Used in some games by Valve.

Which has GC (reference counting/tracing hybrid) and yet it is 
used in video games. If D can improve the GC implementation it 
will be suitable for games as well.


More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list