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Kinx: A scripting language for people who want C-like syntax

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>JavaScript is very good for me, and it is a C like style. But node.js is too heavy.

There are lightweight implementations such as QuickJS.

Wren is also C-like and lightweight https://wren.io

Yes, and more elegant. But Kinx seems to have a better jit.

Yeah, also https://duktape.org/ . Although JS has a lot of warts, I can't think of a project where I would choose a language that's very much like JS but not compatible with it. Some kind of common subset could be a good approach.

Reminds me of squirrel: http://squirrel-lang.org

Like it really reminds me of squirrel.

The Makefile of this project starts with

    .POSIX

and then you have an ifeq .. endif block? and then after a few lines:

    %.o: src/%.c

Why?

this is perfect.

I want to implement a new shell, but I don't like shell script.

I'd like something similar to javascript, especially being object oriented. However, I don't like event loop and call backs, that's not suitable for scripting.

This is going to be ''the next big thing'', I'd like to predict.

But one request, please: make 'break' implicit at the end of each case in switch statements, introduce fallthrough (fallthru?) as a keyword instead.

(How many times did you need to NOT use break in switch-case?)

So it's Perl?

It is like Perl minus $@%*&'s

It is like PHP, but without namespace pollution (like C has)

It is like JavaScript: the good parts

It is like C : as advertised, only in syntax

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It is like Wren or Squirrel, but not as lightweight. Why the source code tgz'd is more that 100MB?

I feel it is good for me. I am also looking for the language like javascript but nodejs. And I think a good point is that the language is including useful libraries by default.

By the way, the source size seems to be reduced to 24MB.

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