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About C++Script
C++Script is a C++ library which provides
scripting, dynamic types and dynamic programming within C++.
The dynamic paradigm allows C++ to be used
in a much more straightforward way, without requiring knowledge of
memory management, classes, templates, containers and iterators.
Many problems can be expressed much more simply using dynamic
types.
Dynamic types are also useful for
experienced C++ programmers, for prototyping, scripting, interfacing to dynamically-typed languages, dynamic data sources etc.
As a scripting language, C++Script programs
are compiled using a standard C++ compiler, can embed standard C and
C++ code where performance matters, can be embedded in C++ projects,
and can link against standard C++ libraries.
The goal of the project is to provide a
simple and easy-to-use facade for C++, whilst making it easy to use the full power of C++ where needed.
Features include:
- A var type provides a natural syntax to use dynamic types using operator overloading.
- Dynamic types are garbage-collected. There
is no undefined behaviour, and no memory corruption.
- A compiler front-end allows cpp files to be "run" from the command line.
- Dynamic collections implement a variety of containers, without templates.
- A foreach macro makes it easy to enumerate collections.
- Dynamic types are thread-safe. Threading is provided in a robust and
simple way through message queues, thread pools and futures.
- Dynamic objects can be easily defined in C++.
- Closures bind arguments to functors, and can implement signals and slots.
- Dynamic objects can be serialized and pickled (preserving object structure).
- Easy escape to C and C++ for efficiency, and interfacing with C and C++ libraries.
- No in-depth knowledge of C++ is required.
Find out more by reading the tutorial.
C++Script is free and open source under the
LGPL license.
News
21st December 2008
Version 0.9.4 released. The documentation
and website have been reorganised. Variadic functions create
arrays, lists and
sets.
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