[versteegen]

I really like the sound of Wren, but you may also want to look into Squirrel, it's basically Lua re-imagined/reimplemented but without all the Lua quirks and with C-style syntax (but it still has optional lua-style prototypes, which means it ends up very similar to Javascript). Its embedding API is largely a copy of Lua's. There is also an active fork called Quirrel that makes the language more like Python.

There are loads of scripting languages but very few of them have an embedding API as powerful as Lua or Squirrel's. (My benchmarks: what's the overhead of a userdata pointer? Is there a proper debug API? Can you suspend a co-routine from inside a called C function? Very few languages even have coroutines.) Last I looked at it years ago, Wren was one of the best. Of course, the most featureful embedding API of all belongs to LuaJIT.

[teo_zero]

> you may also want to look into Squirrel

Is it still active? Last release was in 2022...

[archargelod]

Most recent commit on the github[0] was only 11 months ago.

Also, it's not a javascript framework, a stable software doesn't have to update often. Look at Lua, most people still use Lua 5.1 and that was released in 2006.

[0] https://github.com/albertodemichelis/squirrel

[versteegen]

It's not being actively developed but gets some occasional patches on Github. It's mature (e.g. was used for a number of Valve's games). If you want an actively improving language, look at Quirrel.