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Lightweight programming language

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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

    • References

    Lightweight programming language Wikipedia
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