Squirrel

Jul 20, 2023

High level imperative/OO programming language

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 like dynamic typing, delegation, classes & inheritance, higher order functions, generators, coroutines, tail recursion, exception handling, automatic memory management, weak references, etc.

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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