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Ask HN: Statically typed fast scripting languages?

4 90s_dev 6 6/5/2025, 4:48:19 PM

For a weekend project I need to embed something like Lua in a C or C++ application. I'm looking for scripting languages small and fast and easily embeddable like Lua 5.4 is, but with full static typing like TypeScript with all the flags.

I can't find a list and it's hard to google so I'm hoping some of you have suggestions.

Comments (6)

90s_dev · 1d ago

According to this benchmark of Lua vs QuickJS[1] the Dino language[2] is supposedly much faster than Lua. It also seems to check most of my boxes?

[1] https://sabotage-linux.neocities.org/blog/9/

[2] https://github.com/dino-lang/dino

not_your_vase · 1d ago

Hmmm, this looks pretty interesting. Shame that it didn't take off, and now it looks pretty much dead.

90s_dev · 1d ago

Seems that the ones with a genuine ability to innovate are always the least motivated to either start their project, follow through with it, or share it when finished, beyond a doctoral thesis that gets them a PhD they never really end up using. I wonder why...

diggan · 1d ago

Maybe AngelScript (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngelScript) could be a good fit, used in a bunch of released games, so seems to be good enough for real work.

Wren (https://wren.io/) is another interesting language, but I haven't even tried it myself, but on the surface it seems to match. Edit: Scratch that, Wren isn't actually statically typed, but somehow I have it saved in my bookmarks as one.

stefanos82 · 1d ago

Maybe you need to play with Nelua? Read more at https://nelua.io

PaulHoule · 1d ago

My RSS reader just showed me https://teal-language.org/