100hellos/squirrel repository overview

⁠Hello World! From squirrel.

Language page⁠ — context, influences, and learning notes on the 100hellos site.

Source on GitHub⁠ (100hellos/squirrel)

⁠Trying it

docker run --rm --platform="linux/amd64" 100hellos/squirrel:latest

⁠Modifying it

Read the repo README⁠, or fork the project⁠ and customize it.

For an interactive shell:

docker run --rm --platform="linux/amd64" --entrypoint="" -it 100hellos/squirrel:latest zsh

⁠Squirrel

Squirrel is a high-level, imperative-OO programming language, designed to be a powerful scripting tool that fits within the size, memory bandwidth, and real-time requirements of applications like games. Squirrel offers a wide range of features like dynamic typing, delegation, higher order functions, generators, tail recursion, exception handling, automatic memory management while fitting both compiler and virtual machine into about 6k lines of C++ code. Official Docs⁠