Tofu is a barebones scripting language for people who have use-cases for using small, simple scripts but don't like their syntax, features, complexity or platform dependance. Tofu is platform-agnostic (except for the commands you run) and the language specification is very small.
You can download the latest version of Tofu here
Tofu's official implementation is an interpreter written in Scala. To run said interpreter, all you need is:
- Java 8 or higher, or Scala 3
I also distribute x86_64 binaries for Linux, so if you happen to use a Linux system with this CPU architecture, you don't need Java or Scala.
To run a script, you can run tofu script.tofu (assuming the name is "script.tofu").
You can also pass CLI arguments as global variables: tofu script.tofu var1 var2 var3.
Tofu has a small specification and feature-set. You can begin learning how to use it in the links below.
For a lightweight JAR, dependant on Scala, you can compile Tofu with scalac. The following command requires a shell that supports the "*" wildcard:
mkdir build
scalac src/* src/*/* -d build/tofu.jar
You can also build some sort of lightweight JAR with Scala-CLI, but said JAR can only run with Scala-CLI:
mkdir build
scala-cli --power package src --library -f -o build/tofu.jar
You can instead build an assembly JAR which can be run directly with Java:
mkdir build
scala-cli --power package src --assembly --preamble=false -f -o build/tofu.jar