What is Tui?

Tui is a small, cross platform, open source embeddable scripting language and serialization library for C++.

Created by a solo game developer to be fast, small, and easy to integrate and use, tui combines a key/value storage data format in a human readable format similar to JSON, with a powerful scripting language and interpreter similar to lua.

tui is dynamically typed, flexible, and lightweight. Data is shared in memory between tui and the host c++ program, allowing high performance data read/writes in both environments.

Compared to JSON, tui adds a whole scripting language on top. It's also super fast, provides your data in thinly wrapped stl containers (eg std::map, std::vector), and populates the data for the host program to read immediately when parsed.

Compared to lua, tui is generally slower, but easier to integrate and bind, and (potentially) faster when sharing data between C++ and the scripting environment. It has a smaller footprint, but less language features, and has good, fast built-in table serialization to both binary and human readable formats.

For more information, please see the repository on github.