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Looking for some Lua alternatives to be embedded in a game engine (kbin.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Since I'm having untracable issues with Lua due to its API and lackluster documentation, I've decided to drop it from my game engine (PixelPerfectEngine) in favor of some easier to use alternatives.

What I need is:

open source
small footprint even if it at the cost of some complexity (I need it as a scripting engine, not as a replacement for compiled application languages)
integer support (I don't care if I could just round it on the backend)
C or C++ ABI
can be embedded into a software (yes, there are people that suggest you to use janky solutions like passing data in files and command line)

Even a better Lua implementation would suffice, and if I had the time, I would port the official one to D (my main language), while getting rid of the godawful stack method of control.

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