https://github.com/dimkr/b6b

A lightweight, embeddable scripting language
https://github.com/dimkr/b6b

c coroutines embeddable embedded embedded-linux event-driven interpreted-programming-language interpreter lightweight mainloop script-engine scripting-language

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A lightweight, embeddable scripting language

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/dimkr/b6b
• Owner: dimkr
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2017-04-09T17:23:44.000Z (over 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-03-26T15:00:49.000Z (over 2 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-04T15:44:11.676Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: c, coroutines, embeddable, embedded, embedded-linux, event-driven, interpreted-programming-language, interpreter, lightweight, mainloop, script-engine, scripting-language
• Language: C
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• Size: 412 KB
• Stars: 15
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: COPYING

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## Overview

b6b is a simple, dynamic, procedural and reflective scripting language inspired by [Tcl](http://www.tcl.tk/), [Python](http://www.python.org/), Lisp and shell scripting.

b6b wraps operating system mechanisms and interfaces such as sockets, files, shell commands and even signals with *a unified interface: the stream*. I/O events generated by streams of any kind can be managed through a **single** event loop. This way, b6b enables rapid development of lightweight, asynchronous and scalable, event-driven applications.

b6b is **easy** and safe to embed into other projects: it provides a simple API which allows the creation of multiple, *independent* interpreter instances. In addition, b6b's garbage collection is **deterministic and predictable**, which contributes to easy debugging of memory issues and high reliability in use cases such as long-running daemons. Moreover, b6b uses only *one* OS thread: b6b threads are implemented on top of userspace fibers. Therefore, b6b is safe for inclusion in existing, complex, multi-threaded applications.

b6b is named so in admiration of the *excellent* [Vincent Bach](http://www.bachbrass.com/) 6B trumpet mouthpiece, which produces compact, yet lively and expressive tone with a **strong, solid core**, that makes it a good choice for many playing situations. The name was chosen with hope that these qualities will also be attributed to the language and its implementation.

## Building

b6b is built using [Meson](http://mesonbuild.com/).

```bash

meson build

ninja -C build install

```

## Credits and Legal Information

b6b is free and unencumbered software released under the terms of the [Apache License Version 2.0](https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0); see COPYING for the license text. For a list of its authors and contributors, see AUTHORS.

The ASCII art logo at the top was made using [FIGlet](http://www.figlet.org/).