XarvoScript

XarvoScript is a high-level, dynamic scripting language designed for data manipulation, automation, and light application development. It runs on the XarvoVM, a lightweight runtime featuring a just-in-time compiler and a garbage collector. The language emphasizes readability and embeddability, making it suitable for host applications, user scripting, and rapid prototyping.

Developed by Xarvo Labs, the first stable release appeared in 2020. Since then it has grown a modest ecosystem of libraries and tools, with official documentation and a community-driven package registry. The design aims to balance simplicity for beginners with sufficient power for experienced programmers.

XarvoScript features include an optionally statically typed system via type hints, first-class functions, and expressive data structures such as lists and dictionaries. The syntax borrows from dynamic languages while offering ergonomic constructs like list comprehensions, generators, and async/await for asynchronous I/O. It supports modules and an integrated package manager, as well as an FFI for C and Rust extensions.

Code examples illustrate its style. For example: print("Hello, Xarvo!") and a function with a type annotation: def add(a: int, b: int) -> int: return a + b. The runtime provides standard libraries for file I/O, networking, and data processing.

Use cases include automation scripts in desktop and server environments, tooling for data visualization, and scripting within games and multimedia applications. The language is generally praised for clarity and ease of integration, though critics note a relatively small ecosystem and performance considerations compared with compiled languages.