While Lua doesn't have many batteries included, it is trivial to expose a C lib-whatever interface to Lua when needed (example - http://github.com/iamaleksey/lu

While Lua doesn't have many batteries included, it is trivial to expose a C lib-whatever interface to Lua when needed (example - http://github.com/iamaleksey/lua-zmq/blob/master/zmq.c http://github.com/iamaleksey/lua-zmq/blob/master/zmq.c). And there is a c/++ library for almost everything.