scScript for Linux

scScript is a powerful but simple to use C-like scripting language. It compiles to efficient bytecode (that it shows) and runs in a fast virtual machine. scScript is integrated with scEmacs, a small display editor for I/O.

Everything is written in C, runs on 64-bit Linux, is easy to customize, port, extend, and embed!

Go to Online Manual for a complete guide, or to see sample code (Intro 1).
Go to Downloads to get sources for scScript (and scEmacs).

The scScript language:

• Has familiar C-like syntax and operators.
• Provides simple pointer-less scripting with:
  • 64-bit integer and double floats
  • Immutable UTF-8 text strings
  • Arrays that grow automatically
  • Dictionaries (flexible assoc lists)
  • External structures (3 flavors)
  • Nested function declarations and first-class closures
  • Variadic Pass-by-value and Pass-by-reference args
  • Subordinate scripts
• Has stackful asym coroutines and non-local exits.
• Compiles to optimized bytecode running in a small VM.
• Can display line-by-line source AST and bytecodes.
• Optimizes tail call recursion (no stack frame).
• Uses Mark/Sweep GC as well as Ref Counting.
• Provides a powerful (text) pattern matching system.
• Readily interfaces to C routines for package libs.
• Employs slab-based low-level memory management.
• Only uses libx11 and libxft for scEmacs,
  plus libffi for printf interface.

scEmacs is an integrated editor with:

• Multiple buffers, panes, and windows,
• Color source code display,
• UTF-8 text, Undo, Kill Ring, and Mark list,
• Incremental search, query replace, and auto completion,
• Mouse-based ops, scrolling, and even Unix Sel insert,
• Pop-up window/menu facility for enumeration/selection,
• Specialized commands to drive scScript.