Looking for a Lua alternative

[mw]

> If you're willing to go with Lisp, there are small, embeddable 
> Schemes: 
> [s7](https://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/snd/s7.html) and 
> [Chibi](https://github.com/ashinn/chibi-scheme), one that is 
> more Clojure-like: [Janet](https://janet-lang.org/), and one 
> that's more like Lua: [Squirrel](http://www.squirrel-lang.org/).

BTW, you can also use (native :-) DLisp (revived from undead)

https://code.dlang.org/packages/dlisp