Thanks, all, for the helpful advice and pointers!

I've ended up deciding to go with Guile via a shell, at least for the time being. Here is my glue code. Guile meets my criteria of being installable as a debian package, having good performance, being stable and actively maintained, supporting data structures, and having simple syntax.

Although I think the possibility of a Trojan horse attack using Guile code embedded in a document is realistically a little remote due to my small user base plus sociological factors, I'm looking into how to sandbox Guile. Guile has a sandbox mechanism that seems to be only focused on preventing excessive use of resources. I've posted on the guile-user email list to ask if there's any way to prevent code from accessing the file system and such. I could also just turn off Guile extensions by default.

In reply to Re: Extending a perl program with Scheme, Lua, or JS by bcrowell2
in thread Extending a perl program with Scheme, Lua, or JS by bcrowell2

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