[parenwielder]

It’s still early in its development, but the Luau team is building a first-party standalone runtime called Lute (https://github.com/luau-lang/lute) that’s in C++ because the language’s implementation is also in C++. That might be more your speed?

[npalli]

Looks good. Better chance of success. Agree with the OP you are responding to, Rust might be great for those looking to write things from scratch, no baggage to deal with, not so great if you have to use it when written by someone else (even if that 'someone' is you from one year ago).