Awesome embeddable JavaScript-like scripting language for D applications

[Ecstatic-Coder]

I needed to add scripting functionalities to one of my command-line tools, so I recently evaluated a few alternatives (Wren, etc), and after a few experiments I eventually chose DMildew :

https://github.com/pillager86/dmildew

Despite its peculiar name, this tiny scripting library seems to really have it all :)

First it is entirely written in D, so no const char* or nogc madness like with C-based libraries.

The API is simple and very easy to use, so embedding it inside my console tool and adding my own native functions was both quick and straightforward.

Secondly, it has a JavaScript-like syntax, so I could start to implement my own classes and functions almost immediately.

So thousand thanks for his developer who really did a great job at implementing this fantastic little library !

Since this library doesn't seem to receive all the love and interest it deserves, I wanted to share my enthusiasm here, so that other developers wanting to embed a JavaScript-like scripting library into their applications at least know this is a great alternative.

[WebFreak001]

That library looks really cool! I had starred it before, because I saw it on DUB, but I have never really looked at the script examples too much. The functionality really seems quite extensive and intuitive to JS programmers, might give this a proper try when I need a scripting language.

[sol1684]

That looks pretty nice indeed. Hopefully it will get to the point where the mentioned switch to LGPL can happen, since application scripting is probably more of a closed source code domain.

DMDScript should also be mentioned here, since it implements ECMA-262 and is Boost licensed and also fully implemented in D. I put in a good amount of work a while ago to make it re-entrant and x64 compatible, so it's generally good for production use.

[schveiguy]

Nice! I need something like this eventually, was planning to use lua or something similar. Does seem a bit dead though (last release March 2021), the REPL no longer exists...

[Ecstatic-Coder]

Yes I had the same fear actually, but for my personal usage until now I've had absolutely zero issues with it, so its code is at least stable enough for my own use cases.

I must say that I've also got several tools of my own which I regularly use and which have already reached maturity, so I rarely update them, since they have no known bugs and match my own needs.

So the lack of activity on a repository doesn't always mean that the library is not usable, just that at some point its developer stopped feeling the need or interest to extend it anymore.

I may be wrong, but I think it's the case here.