The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by _zhqs » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 5:23 PM UTC

The Squirrel Programming Language
developer.valvesoftware.com

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by justusw » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 7:17 PM UTC

Given that Lua and Squirrel are quite similar due to meta tables resembling each other, what does Squirrel provide compared to Lua except for the C-Style syntax?

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by jonathonf » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 7:18 PM UTC

Official site:

http://squirrel-lang.org/

Similar:

http://wren.io/index.html

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by SamReidHughes » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

justusw wrote: post #2

Given that Lua and Squirrel are quite similar due to meta tables resembling each other, what does Squirrel provide compared to Lua except for the C-Style syntax?

It looks like arrays are different from tables and they start at 0.

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by gyoza » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 7:28 PM UTC

justusw wrote: post #2

Given that Lua and Squirrel are quite similar due to meta tables resembling each other, what does Squirrel provide compared to Lua except for the C-Style syntax?

I am guessing that it is used in Valve games..

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by brianobush » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 7:56 PM UTC

Better to see the actual documentation at: http://squirrel-lang.org/squirreldoc/reference/index.html

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by mcphage » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 8:01 PM UTC

The 2008 WiiWare game "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King" was implemented in Squirrel.

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by xufi » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 8:06 PM UTC

gyoza wrote: post #5

justusw wrote: post #2

Given that Lua and Squirrel are quite similar due to meta tables resembling each other, what does Squirrel provide compared to Lua except for the C-Style syntax?

I am guessing that it is used in Valve games..

I wonder if parts of it were used in TF2 updates since that hasn't gotten an update in a while

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by sreidnw » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 8:07 PM UTC

I've also run across Squirrel (or a variant of it) on Electric Imp (an IoT/embedded platform): https://electricimp.com/docs/squirrel/

Re: The Squirrel Programming Language

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Post by mwcampbell » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 8:09 PM UTC

justusw wrote: post #2

Given that Lua and Squirrel are quite similar due to meta tables resembling each other, what does Squirrel provide compared to Lua except for the C-Style syntax?

The combination of reference counting and tracing GC looks interesting. There have been a couple of attempts to retrofit reference counting into Lua, but nothing stable or widely used AFAIK.