[eigenbom]

From their GitHub page: "ChaiScript is one of the only embedded scripting language designed from the ground up to directly target C++ and take advantage of modern C++ development techniques, working with the developer how they would expect it to work. Being a native C++ application, it has some advantages over existing embedded scripting languages:

It uses a header-only approach, which makes it easy to integrate with existing projects.

It maintains type safety between your C++ application and the user scripts.

It supports a variety of C++ techniques including callbacks, overloaded functions, class methods, and stl containers."

[humanrebar]

> ...modern C++ development techniques...

Shipping header only is really admitting that modern C++ still has a lack of technique, sidestepping the lack of modules and packaging for instance.

[geezerjay]

The decision to go with a headers-only design is only required if you want/need to provide templates.

Furthermore, it's ignorant to conflate headers-only libraries with a problem or a shortcoming.

[de_watcher]

> sidestepping the lack of modules and packaging for instance.

I'm tired of that nitpicking. These tools happen to be outside of the language for historical reasons and probably C compatibility. It's not in the language because apparently not enough people care.

And I think that the ideal way is standardizing of the OS package management first, not having a package manager (or several) for each language. But it won't happen for OS business reasons.