**strongly** inspired by [chuck](http://chuck.stanford.edu/), but adding a bunch *high-level* features:
templating, first-class functions and more.
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-It aims to be simple, small, fast, [extendable](https://github.com/fennecdjay/Gwion-plug) and embeddable.
+It aims to be simple, small,
+ [fast](https://fennecdjay.github.io/Benchmarks),
+ [extendable](https://github.com/fennecdjay/Gwion-plug) and embeddable.
### simple example code (hello_world.gw):