The trend is to compile anything under the sun into JS, not the other way around. Although they are quite similar under the hood, Lua programmers take pride in

The trend is to compile anything under the sun into JS, not the other way around. Although they are quite similar under the hood, Lua programmers take pride in Lua's elegant and minimalistic design, along with JIT speed. JS warts would not be very welcome. That said, there was a project called lua-colony that attempted the conversion.