Wren: a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language

The fibers remind me of Elixir&#x27;s processes. Elixir fascinated me at first, but I really didn&#x27;t get into the groove of it after trying it out on a project.<p>Wren looks equally fascinating; perhaps it could warrant a trail project of its own.

<p><pre><code> 4000 semicolons </code></pre> I&#x27;ve never seen that used as a way to measure code size, but it&#x27;s perfect for Cish code. That alone made this worth the click. And the language itself looks like something I wish I could have designed. Good show.

Wren is great, I participated in the community for a while but then got on to different things. Glad to see it is still going strong.

I&#x27;ve looked through the wren.io website, including the module documentation. As a scripting language, I would expect Wren to have decent regex support, but I find nothing there. Did I overlook it?<p>I use perl and python for building little utilities. I like the regularity of python over perl, but if I could get a clean syntax and it ran 4x faster with Wren, that would be great. But if there isn&#x27;t a regex facility, it is a non-starter.

Looks interesting, but I can&#x27;t figure out where&#x2F;for what it would be used. Am I missing something obvious?

Are Wren fibers automatically distributed across available CPU cores or is it all single-threaded?

I wish languages in this space would make it easier to create statically linked executables. With Lua you can do it yourself using squishy and a small main.c program, but it would be nice of the compiler just did it all for you.<p>For small cli apps, being able to write them in a pleasant to use language like Wren would be a big win.

Hmm – I&#x27;m working on some Windows API manipulations to provide a framework to make `macro scripts` (similar to AutHotKey or AutoIt), and in a few weeks I&#x27;ll be looking to implement a scripting language. I&#x27;ve checked out LuaJIT, Lua 5.3, Lua w&#x2F;Terra, AngelCode, Python, et al. and they all seem to have their faults. I actually need a language that supports both proper threading and co-routines, to respond to user-based key hooking (and good stuff like timers). This seems like it may be a good candidate, I don&#x27;t mind contributing either. Bookmarked.

Bob: so no workstealing with native threads anymore, just tiny fibers?<p>looking forward to your jit. have a look at potion, it&#x27;s really simple and fast.

A cute little language, but without the support of existing libraries, it can&#x27;t gain mass adoption. It will take years to catch up with LuaJIT, and its vibrant ecosystem.

What is the performance like? Comparable to V8 javascript? Or maybe even comparable to LuaJIT?

fibers? sounds like a duck named quacky.