The obvious comparison is Lua, which is generally the standard embedded language people use when a scripting language needs to be tiny. I compared its size; Zuo is 55% the size of Lua, so apples to apples, Zuo is only a little over half the size of Lua. On the other hand, Lua uses a Pascal like syntax which is a good deal more Bash like than Zuo.
Is Zua a Lua variant the size of Zuo? I like the idea.
Going back to the Bash comparison, Bash is huge but the subset ash is pretty small, somewhat smaller than Zuo. Busybox’s AWK is, as I recall, about half the size of Zuo. We can have a POSIX compliant scripting setup (ash + AWK) using around the same amount of space Zuo takes up.
