squirrel-lang.org/

Squirrel is a high level imperative/OO programming language, designed to be a powerful scripting tool that fits in the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like games. Although Squirrel offers a wide range of features like:

• Open Source zlib/libpng licence


• dynamic typing


• delegation


• classes & inheritance


• higher order functions


• generators


• cooperative threads(coroutines)


• tail recursion


• exception handling


• automatic memory management (CPU bursts free; mixed approach ref counting/GC)


• weak references


• both compiler and virtual machine fit together in about 6k lines of C++ code.


• optional 16bits characters strings


• compiles on both 32 and 64 bits architectures

Squirrel is inspired by languages like Python,Javascript and expecially Lua(The API is very similar and the table code is based on the Lua one)