I've been trying to use `Deno` underneath `Rust` so that the tools can still be written in Typescript and thus self-mutated without the compilation step (but I can still try to do clever things with V8 Isolates or similar). It's been an ugly experiment so far; I'm vaguely thinking a simpler model would be to just define a binary "API" and run tools by exec-ing binaries.

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gidellav 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I have to be honest and tell you that try to load such an heavy runtime as a scripting layer is not a great idea; at the same time I can tell you that I am working on another Rust project where I also needed scripting, and after three attempts I landed on rhai (https://rhai.rs/) (https://rhai.rs/book).

You might find it nice for pretty much all use cases except for high-performance scripting (so, if you are not try to build the entire logic entirely in rhai, you are going to be fine).

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frio 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, it's been a bit of a dead end. I didn't want the heavy runtime but felt it was worth disproving after experimenting rather than ruling out off the bat. Even before getting it running, the dependency list alone was pretty discouraging, especially given the storm of supply chain attacks these days.

Rhai looks nice, I'll take a look, thanks! And good luck with Zerostack.

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slopinthebag an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I was just going to suggest rhai. It's simple enough LLMs can easily write it with a little context, and you control the entire API so you can sandbox effectively without needing to resort to hacks with a JS interpreter etc.

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BillStrong an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Have you thought about Zig? If you limit it to CompTime, isn't that just a scripting language that happens to be compiled to binary?

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jswny 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why not WASM?

	▲	frio an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Unfamiliarity and I believe it requires a compile step. I’m at least familiar with Typescript and Deno so being able to embed them was an appealing idea :)