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# The Tengo Language

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**Tengo is a small, dynamic, fast, secure script language for Go.** 

Tengo is **[fast](#benchmark)** and secure because it's compiled/executed as bytecode on stack-based VM that's written in native Go.

```golang
/* The Tengo Language */

each := func(seq, fn) {
    for x in seq { fn(x) }
}

sum := func(init, seq) {
    each(seq, func(x) { init += x })
    return init
}

n := sum(0, [1, 2, 3])   // == 6
s := sum("", [1, 2, 3])  // == "123"
```

> Run this code in the [Playground](https://tengolang.com/?s=d01cf9ed81daba939e26618530eb171f7397d9c9)

## Features

- Simple and highly readable [Syntax](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/tutorial.md)
  - Dynamic typing with type coercion
  - Higher-order functions and closures
  - Immutable values _(v1)_
  - Garbage collection
- [Securely Embeddable](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/interoperability.md) and [Extensible](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/objects.md)
- Compiler/runtime written in native Go _(no external deps or cgo)_
- Executable as a [standalone](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/tengo-cli.md) language / REPL

## Benchmark

| | fib(35) | fibt(35) |  Type  |
| :--- |    ---: |     ---: |  :---: |
| Go | `58ms` | `4ms` | Go (native) |
| [**Tengo**](https://github.com/d5/tengo) | `4,334ms` | `5ms` | VM on Go |
| Lua | `1,740ms` | `3ms` | Lua (native) |
| [go-lua](https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua) | `5,229ms` | `5ms` | Lua VM on Go |
| [GopherLua](https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua) | `5,486ms` | `5ms` | Lua VM on Go |
| Python | `3,116ms` | `27ms` | Python (native) |
| [starlark-go](https://github.com/google/starlark-go) | `15,414ms` | `5ms` | Python-like Interpreter on Go |
| [gpython](https://github.com/go-python/gpython) | `17,754ms` | `6ms` | Python Interpreter on Go |
| [goja](https://github.com/dop251/goja) | `6,843ms` | `6ms` | JS VM on Go |
| [otto](https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto) | `86,542ms` | `13ms` | JS Interpreter on Go |
| [Anko](https://github.com/mattn/anko) | `98,962ms` | `26ms` | Interpreter on Go |

_* [fib(35)](https://github.com/d5/tengobench/blob/master/code/fib.tengo): Fibonacci(35)_  
_* [fibt(35)](https://github.com/d5/tengobench/blob/master/code/fibtc.tengo): [tail-call](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call) version of Fibonacci(35)_  
_* **Go** does not read the source code from file, while all other cases do_  
_* See [here](https://github.com/d5/tengobench) for commands/codes used_

## References

- [Language Syntax](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/tutorial.md)
- [Tengo Objects](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/objects.md)
- [Runtime Types](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/runtime-types.md)
- [Builtin Functions](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/builtins.md)
- [Interoperability](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/interoperability.md)
- [Tengo CLI](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/tengo-cli.md)
- [Standard Library](https://github.com/d5/tengo/blob/master/docs/stdlib.md) _(experimental)_

## Roadmap

### v0. _(Current)_

Things are experimental, and, the focus is on the **core language features**, **stability**, **basic interoperability**, and the **performance optimization**.

### [v1. Tengo as a Script Language](https://github.com/d5/tengo/labels/v1.0)

This will be the first _versioned_ release, and, the main goal for v1 is to make Tengo as a _fast_ embeddable script language for Go, which means Tengo will be comparable to other Go-based script languages such as [Starlark](https://github.com/google/starlark-go), [Lua](https://github.com/Shopify/go-lua) [VM](https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua)s, and [other](https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto) [interpreter](https://github.com/mattn/anko)s.

- Interoperability with Go code
- Sandbox environment
- More language features

### v2. Tengo as a Standalone Language

- Language-level concurrency support
- Tengo Standard Libraries
- Native executables compilation
- More language features