Looking for a Lua alternative

[Ogi]

On Thursday, 14 December 2023 at 08:38:02 UTC, solidstate1991 
wrote:
> I need a lightweight scripting language with integer support 
> that is either easy to interface with D (preferrably as a 
> DLL/SO file, so I don't have to deal with godawful C/C++ build 
> systems), or at least would be easy to port within a few weeks.

[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.