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Overview

b6b is a simple, dynamic, procedural and reflective scripting language inspired by Tcl, Python, Lisp and shell scripting.

b6b wraps operating system mechanisms and interfaces such as sockets, files, shell commands and even signals with a unified interface: the stream. I/O events generated by streams of any kind can be managed through a single event loop. This way, b6b enables rapid development of lightweight, asynchronous and scalable, event-driven applications.

b6b is easy and safe to embed into other projects: it provides a simple API which allows the creation of multiple, independent interpreter instances. In addition, b6b's garbage collection is deterministic and predictable, which contributes to easy debugging of memory issues and high reliability in use cases such as long-running daemons. Moreover, b6b uses only one OS thread: b6b threads are implemented on top of userspace fibers. Therefore, b6b is safe for inclusion in existing, complex, multi-threaded applications.

b6b is named so in admiration of the excellent Vincent Bach 6B trumpet mouthpiece, which produces compact, yet lively and expressive tone with a strong, solid core, that makes it a good choice for many playing situations. The name was chosen with hope that these qualities will also be attributed to the language and its implementation.

Building

b6b is built using Meson.

meson build
ninja -C build install

Credits and Legal Information

b6b is free and unencumbered software released under the terms of the Apache License Version 2.0; see COPYING for the license text. For a list of its authors and contributors, see AUTHORS.

The ASCII art logo at the top was made using FIGlet.