[catwell]

There are several alternatives using Lua too, including for instance PICO-8 https://www.lexaloffle.com/pico-8.php

[d3VwsX]

And TIC-80 (https://tic80.com/). It can be used with "lua, ruby, js, moon, fennel, scheme, squirrel, wren, wasm, janet or python".

[toastal]

Would be real nice being the open source option to not have their communications locked to proprietary services (Discord, Microsoft GitHub’s forge + discussions) & had alternatives mirrored/bridged.