Can I use C as a scripting language for my engine?

Question

I have a game engine right now and I'm looking for a scripting language for it. I tried Lua and find it quite good but I want to have my script to look like C or better C++ or look like unreal engine's script would be better.

Is that even possible?

Answer 1

Sure you can :P You can do everything if you want to.

I currently see these three ways:

• Either you write the code yourself to parse the C/C++-Code, which really isn't an easy task
• You use a parser which analyzes and interprets C-Code. Ch Standard edition should do the trick as it can be included in own projects as a scripting language.
• Another way would be to create a script which dynamically compiles the user-generated code to a shared library which is dynamically loaded by your engine. Although this wouldn't be "scripting" anymore.