[valorzard]

Something that’s REALLY interesting is that Roblox is working on a Node.js style desktop runtime for Luau:

https://github.com/luau-lang/lute

[bstsb]

there's a slightly more mature runtime for Luau developed already:

https://github.com/lune-org/lune

i use it for build scripts and automating tasks for Roblox place files, it's pretty good for my use-case

[esadek]

There's another standalone Luau runtime called Lune: https://github.com/lune-org/lune