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FascinatedBox/lily

Interpreted language focused on expressiveness and type safety. observed · 2026-09-01

github.com/FascinatedBox/lily · homepage · C · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-09-01

Health v2 · maintenance only

77/100

  • Activity 100
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4533
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 4
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1093 stars · 38 forks observed · 2026-09-01

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

Lily is a statically-typed, interpreted programming language focused on expressiveness and type safety, implemented in C. It is designed to be embedded in applications with sandboxing support, offering classes, generics, algebraic data types, and exceptions.

Use cases

  • embed a sandboxed scripting language in a C application
  • write scripts with static type safety
  • learn a statically-typed scripting language
  • run quick scripts from the command line
  • try a language with Option and Result types built in

When to choose

  • you need an embeddable, sandboxable scripting interpreter with a C API
  • you want static typing with generics and algebraic data types in a scripting language
  • you want a dependency-free language built with just CMake and a C11 compiler

When to avoid

  • you need a large ecosystem of third-party packages and libraries
  • you need maximum runtime performance from a compiled language
  • you need a language with broad industry adoption and community support

Facets

library · maturity active

interpreter programming-language sdk programming-languages developer-tools windows cross-platform cli c embeddable scripting-language statically-typed sandboxing type-safety reference-counting command-line linux macos

3 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
FascinatedBox/lilymain77

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="FascinatedBox/lily")

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