Open-source Delphi interpreters?

[David Schwartz 426]

I'm curious if anybody knows of any FOSS Delphi interpreters. TMS has had one for quite a while, and I worked with it on a project many years ago. But I think it's overkill for what I'm looking for. Besides, it's not FOSS.

 

What I'm interested in is building a REST service that runs on a standard Linux host (eg., CentOS) and has a way of adding services by uploading a source file written in Delphi rather than having to upload compiled code. Delphi purists will say that's way too inefficient, but It's not like running interpreters on back-end servers is an unusual thing, since most such services are written in php, python, and even VB. Anyway, it doesn't need to "run fast", as long as you can easily spin-up multiple servers running the same code.

 

I don't think it needs to support 100% of the latest Delphi language features, maybe just to D7 or even the version after D2010 with stable generics.

 

As an aside, I cannot comprehend why Delphi has no support for Linux except for distros that conform to specific UI needs, when most people want to use Linux to run services, and most Linux hosting is all headless. There should be a way to build headless apps (ie, no UI parts) for common Linux distros in all Delphi versions.

[Darian Miller 363]

This one has a long history: https://github.com/remobjects/pascalscript

 

 

[Darian Miller 363]

This is probably the better choice: https://www.delphitools.info/dwscript/

[Anders Melander 1791]

I have used DWScript as a scripting system in several products. Used either to provide business rules (no UI, just logic) or as a app/plugin (with UI).

The OP language support and performance is excellent. The learning curve is extremely high (no documentation, few examples).

Here's an IDE/debugger I wrote for it: DWScriptStudio

 

FWIW, https://www.beginend.net is powered by DWScript.

Edited 10 hours ago by Anders Melander