Welcome to the Funky embeddable interpreter and programming language

Funky is an embeddable functional programming language, written in C++.

• It is stable: while you are reading this page, hundreds of decisions are being taken by Funky - more than two million a day!
• It is fast: running a failrly complex script takes only micro-seconds, depending on the hardware.
• It is small: all four dialects in a single DLL, without optimization, weighs less than 140 K. 
• It is being used around the world: there are known instances in North America, The Caribbean, Asia, Australia and Europe.

Embeddable

Funky can be integrated into an existing C++ application in minutes. Each dialect is represented by a single class with only five methods (seven if you count the overloads): parse, eval, run, installFunction and removeFunction. To embed the interpreter in your application, simply create an instance of the class that represents the dialect you want to use, parse your script, and have the interpreter evaluate it any number of times.

Watch the demos or subscribe to the podcast for a demonstration on how to integrate and use the Funky interpreter.

Functional Programming Language

Funky is in the same family of languages as Erlang, Forth, Haskell and Lisp. These languages are all highly reliable, and are thread-safe. Like other functional programming languages, Funky

• allows you to pass a function to a function (but doesn't allow you to return a function from a function, nor does it allow a C++ function to receive a function as a parameter);
• allows for pure functions that have no memory or I/O side effects. This means that:
  • Funky is inherently thread-safe
  • Funky doesn't leak resources