{"id":9702,"date":"2021-06-23T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/?p=9702"},"modified":"2021-06-23T14:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:14:07","slug":"pocketlang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g33kinfo.com\/info\/pocketlang\/","title":{"rendered":"Pocketlang"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>Pocketlang<\/strong>\u00a0is a small (~3000 semicolons) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang#performance\">fast<\/a>\u00a0functional language written in C. It&#8217;s syntactically similar to Ruby and it can be learned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thakeenathees.github.io\/pocketlang\/getting-started-learn-in-15-minutes.html\">within 15 minutes<\/a>. Including the compiler, bytecode VM and runtime, it&#8217;s a standalone executable with zero external dependencies just as it&#8217;s self descriptive name. The pocketlang VM can be embedded in another hosting program very easily. The language is written using\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wren.io\/\">Wren Language<\/a>\u00a0and their wonderful book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.craftinginterpreters.com\/\">Crafting Interpreters<\/a>\u00a0as a reference.<\/p><cite>https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed wp-block-embed-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"github-embed github-embed-repository github-logo-mark\">    <p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\" target=\"_blank\">\t\t\t<strong>\t\t\t\tA lightweight, fast embeddable scripting language.\t\t\t<\/strong>\t\t<\/a>\t\t<br>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang<\/a><br>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\/network\" target=\"_blank\">85<\/a> forks.<br>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\/stargazers\" target=\"_blank\">1,547<\/a> stars.<br>        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\/issues\" target=\"_blank\">58<\/a> open issues.<br>        <details open>            <summary>Recent commits:<\/summary>            <ul class=\"github_commits\">                                    <li class=\"github_commit\">                        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\/commit\/cc73ca61b113d48ee130d837a7a8b145e41de5ce\" target=\"_blank\">Add Native API documentation and improve build system- Add comprehensive Native API documentation covering VM integration, native functions, custom types, and dynamic library extensions- Update Makefile to copy include\/ folder to build directory for lib-debug and lib-release targets- Add deprecation warning to amalgamate.py script- Update docs sidebar to include Native API guide<\/a>, ThakeeNathees                    <\/li>                                    <li class=\"github_commit\">                        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\/commit\/e316d53fa73509a6c647b355273b1c5be1ed5ecb\" target=\"_blank\">fiber ret updated before loading native modules<\/a>, Thakee Nathees                    <\/li>                                    <li class=\"github_commit\">                        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\/commit\/f249d118b2fe45a4f94c6c03d451a5091ff6ff2c\" target=\"_blank\">cwd added to search paths<\/a>, Thakee Nathees                    <\/li>                                    <li class=\"github_commit\">                        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\/commit\/72a957daef0f63cb473c9a2aab70d1800ff74d34\" target=\"_blank\">Merge pull request #252 from ThakeeNathees\/class-static-attributestatic attribute to class added<\/a>, GitHub                    <\/li>                                    <li class=\"github_commit\">                        <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ThakeeNathees\/pocketlang\/commit\/ca0fb6b54d69fc47a857e6cf915fc910a813f673\" target=\"_blank\">static attribute to class added<\/a>, Thakee Nathees                    <\/li>                            <\/ul>        <\/details>    <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pocketlang\u00a0is a small (~3000 semicolons) and\u00a0fast\u00a0functional language written in C. 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