luna

I would highly recommend you start with this book first https://interpreterbook.com and then feel free to read Nystrom's online book as ablerman suggested. The you can read more formal CS book for the sake of covering the necessary theory. Another suggestion would be to check the source code of various SQL databases, such as SQLite3 and PostgreSQL. Also, I would suggest to read lots of lots of source code from github. Here is a short list of suggestions: * https://github.com/lemon-lang/lemon * https://github.com/d5/tengo * https://github.com/wren-lang/wren (by Robert Nystrom) * https://github.com/tj/luna (by TJ Holowaychuk, creator of Express.js)

Any relationship to TJ H's repo, http://github.com/tj/luna ?

Is this related to the luna programming language experiment by TJ Holowaychuk? https://github.com/tj/luna

I love the syntax that Coffeescript-like languages are converging to, like Moonscript, tj's luna (https://github.com/tj/luna) and Pogoscript (http://pogoscript.org/). They fall way on the right of the "computer code vs. human code" spectrum, which is handy when writing applications as quickly as possible rather than focusing on fine details like implementation and performance. It's a shame I don't see it often in the wild, except for Atom and a few others.

I am looking for scripting languages that are suited for realtime # programming. The main criteria is that there is no stop-the-world garbage collector as in Python or Lua. The main approach these languages use is a reference counting garbage collector Some candidates I have found are: - Squirrel (http://www.squirrel-lang.org/) - Angelscript (http://www.angelcode.com/angelscript/) - EEL (http://eelang.org/) - GameMonkey Script (https://github.com/publicrepo/gmscript) incremental GC - Exprk (https://github.com/ArashPartow/exprtk) More a expression evaluator than a language Some candidates that are not quite suited for me yet: - Luna (Beta) (https://github.com/tj/luna) - pforth (infix vs postfix) (https://github.com/philburk/pforth) My question is if I have all relevant projects on the list here or if I am missing an importa

Yup, and also Luna https://github.com/tj/luna/blob/master/examples/fork.luna

And now he is writing a language https://github.com/tj/luna

A small update here! Starting today the official repository of Luna is here: https://github.com/luna . You will not find anything available for the public at the moment, but I wanted to let you know that the original owner of that repository has agreed to transfer it for our purposes ( thank you once again! :) ). You can still find his language here: https://github.com/tj/luna