Show HN: Cicada – A scripting language that integrates with C

Published: 5 days ago (January 30, 2026 at 07:07 AM EST)

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Source: Hacker News

Overview

I wrote a lightweight scripting language that runs together with C. Specifically, it’s a C library; you run it through a C function call, and it can callback your own C functions. It compiles to ~250 kB and has no dependencies beyond the C standard library.

Key language features

Uses aliases not pointers, …

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