gluon-lang/gluon

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Gluon is a small, statically-typed functional programming language with type inference, implemented in Rust and designed for embedding in applications as a scripting layer. It provides a Rust library with a simple embedding API, a REPL, and thread-safe parallel execution of scripts.

Use cases

• embed a scripting language in a Rust application
• add user-configurable scripts to my program
• run sandboxed functional scripts with static types
• evaluate expressions at runtime from Rust
• try a small ML-like language in the browser
• script game or app logic without recompiling

When to choose

• you need an embeddable scripting language in a Rust codebase with minimal marshalling boilerplate
• you want static typing and type inference for embedded scripts
• you need thread-safe parallel execution of scripts with separate heaps

When to avoid

• you need a mature general-purpose scripting language with a large ecosystem like Lua or Python
• your project is not written in Rust
• you need extensive third-party libraries or tooling for the scripting layer

Facets

library · maturity active

programming-language interpreter compiler type-system programming-languages developer-tools parsers rust cross-platform cli scripting-language embeddable functional-programming type-inference repl garbage-collected

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