I want to allow the users of my project be able to write the driving logic, while I provide the tools. What are some embedded scripting languages in Rust that can be sandboxed and are easy for absolute beginners?

edit: Thanks for all of your answers, I decided to go with lua using mlua

  • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    You can embed Lua pretty easily using a few different libraries. One I liked in particular was mlua. Lua is tiny, usually sufficiently fast, and easy to learn.

    Otherwise, there are some others like Rhai, but there may be fewer resources available for users if you go with a less popular language.

    • asudox@programming.devOP
      31·
      2 months ago

      Thanks for this. Seems like I’ll go with Lua. I actually did try Rhai before posting this and it did work pretty easily and had a very nice and convenient plugin system. But it had no LSP and on top of that, it wasn’t as easy as Lua.