Roland Brake
📘 Introduction to Piscript
Welcome to Piscript — a lightweight, embeddable scripting language with built-in support for graphics, matrices, and functional programming. Piscript is designed to be expressive, minimal, and ideal for creative and educational projects, with inspiration drawn from Pico-8 and Python.
🚀 What is Piscript?
Piscript is a scripting language that:
- Compiles to WebAssembly using Emscripten
- Supports a 128×128 pixel graphics console, ideal for retro-style visual output
- Features familiar syntax elements inspired by Python and JavaScript
- Includes functional programming tools like
map,filter,reduce, andcompose - Supports matrices, dot/cross products, and array manipulation
- Allows anonymous and arrow functions
- Offers a REPL-style online playground
🔧 Requirements
To run Piscript locally or embed it in your project, you need:
- A modern browser (for the web-based version)
- Or: a C/C++ development environment with Emscripten if you're compiling the language yourself
🌐 Try It Online
You can try Piscript directly in your browser using the Piscript Playground. Just write your code and hit Run!
📦 Installation
Piscript is designed to run in the browser, but if you want to build it yourself:
Clone and Build
git clone https://github.com/rolandbrake/piscript.git
cd piscript
emmake make
Wojciech "adalbert" J
Leonardo Suriano
Mike Lemberger
Hi Yann, the project still in its early stages, im trying to improve the performance and detecting bugs the eventual goal for me is to make a handheld game console that be able to run piscript internally, i can use your help if you are interested