Lightweight programming language
A lightweight programming language is one that is designed to have very small memory footprint, is easy to implement (important when porting a language), and/or has minimalist syntax and features.
Examples of lightweight languages
- Lua is embedded in many applications, like games, to provide runtime scripting capabilities
- Forth
- JavaScript
- Squirrel
- newLisp
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