Squirrel

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What is Squirrel?

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. However, Squirrel offers a wide range of features, including:

  • 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

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


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