marcobambini/gravity

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Gravity is a lightweight, dynamically typed, class-based scripting language written in portable C99 with no external dependencies, featuring a multipass compiler and a compact virtual machine. It is designed to be embedded in applications (notably the Creo project) and offers a Swift-like syntax with classes, closures, fibers, and a powerful bridging API.

Use cases

• embed a scripting language in a C or Objective-C app
• write portable scripts that run on iOS and Android
• add user-extensible logic to a native application
• learn how compilers and virtual machines are implemented
• use a lightweight alternative to Lua with class-based OOP
• serialize and deserialize JSON from embedded scripts

When to choose

• you need a tiny (<200KB) embeddable language with zero external dependencies
• you prefer Swift-like class-based syntax over Lua's prototype style
• you need coroutines, closures, and operator overriding in a scripting layer
• you want a clean C codebase to study or modify

When to avoid

• you need a large ecosystem of third-party libraries and packages
• you need high-performance numeric computing or JIT compilation
• you need a language with strong static typing
• you require long-term commercial support or a large community

Facets

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interpreter programming-language compiler serialization programming-languages developer-tools cross-platform cross-platform windows c embeddable-language virtual-machine bytecode scripting-language swift-like-syntax fibers closures pratt-parser no-dependencies programming-language ios android linux macos

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