Show HN: Tiny – An interpeted dynamic langauge with inline Go native functions

[confis]

https://github.com/confh/Tiny

[drunken_thor]

What a great accomplishment! How did you manage to complete a JIT language in 2 months!?

[d3Xt3r]

What's the use-case here? Where and why would one use Tiny instead of just using Go (or something else like Python)?

[graemep → d3Xt3r]

Faster development with an interpreted dynamic language with performance boosts from the JIT and inline Go.

You can do similar things in other languages but not AFAIK as a built in feature. You can have in line C innTCL

[confis → d3Xt3r]

the niche I'm aiming for is small tools where I want a dynamic language but Go-like deployment. for example, a CLI app, an automation tool, a webview desktop app, a small HTTP server, etc... and can then be shipped as one executable without asking the user to install the runtime on their machine or manage packages

[sigmonsays]

this is interesting, i'm wondering if it can beat just installing go though.

I think it'd be interesting to build a adhoc config mgmt system w/ this and use it as a high level scripting language.

[confis → sigmonsays]

yeah, i think an adhoc config management tool could be a good fit for tiny. i'm not really trying to say it beats go in general. if someone already likes writing go, go is probably the better choice for a lot of projects. the point of tiny is more that you can write a normal program with a dynamic language (that has native escape hatches) and less boilerplate but still ship it as one executable like a go program.

it also has escape hatches for go/wasm and native plugins, so if part of a program needs lower-level code or an existing native library, you can call into a .dll or .so through a simple json-based plugin interface.