Statically typed fast scripting languages?

Question

For a weekend project I need to embed something like Lua in a C or C++ application. I'm looking for scripting languages small and fast and easily embeddable like Lua 5.4 is, but with full static typing like TypeScript with all the flags.I can't find a list and it's hard to google so I'm hoping some of you have suggestions.

90s_dev · Accepted Answer

According to this benchmark of Lua vs QuickJS[1] the Dino language[2] is supposedly much faster than Lua. It also seems to check most of my boxes?
[1] https://sabotage-linux.neocities.org/blog/9/
[2] https://github.com/dino-lang/dino

diggan · Answer

Maybe AngelScript (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngelScript) could be a good fit, used in a bunch of released games, so seems to be good enough for real work.Wren (https://wren.io/) is another interesting language, but I haven't even tried it myself, but on the surface it seems to match. Edit: Scratch that, Wren isn't actually statically typed, but somehow I have it saved in my bookmarks as one.

stefanos82 · Answer

Maybe you need to play with Nelua? Read more at https://nelua.io

PaulHoule · Answer

My RSS reader just showed me https://teal-language.org/

Statically typed fast scripting languages?

According to this benchmark of Lua vs QuickJS[1] the Dino language[2] is supposedly much faster than Lua. It also seems to check most of my boxes?[1] https://sabotage-linux.neocities.org/blog/9/[2] https://github.com/dino-lang/dino

Maybe you need to play with Nelua? Read more at https://nelua.io

My RSS reader just showed me https://teal-language.org/

According to this benchmark of Lua vs QuickJS[1] the Dino language[2] is supposedly much faster than Lua. It also seems to check most of my boxes?
[1] https://sabotage-linux.neocities.org/blog/9/
[2] https://github.com/dino-lang/dino