I wish there was something better than Lua and just as "obvious" a choice. Static types, real arrays, zero-based indexing, etc.

Closest thing I've seen so far is Roto: https://roto.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/stable/index.html

Basically everything about this looks great - Rust-style syntax, static type checking, sane type system, easily embedded. The only slightly odd things are that it has built in types for IP addresses, AS numbers, and `filtermap`. But I guess you can just ignore those if you don't need them.

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eqvinox 14 hours ago | parent [-]

The language is primarily used by Rotonda, the composable, programmable BGP routing engine.

Not odd to have those data types at all…

	▲	IshKebab 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Yeah it makes sense for their use case. I meant it was an odd thing to have if you were using it as a general purpose language like Lua.
	▲	LoganDark 13 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Better to let specific domains define their own data types than favor one in the language.