Lua is emerging as a "everything compiles to it" source target - you can have Lisp style syntax, you can have static types and JS style syntax with Haxe - it's

Lua is emerging as a "everything compiles to it" source target - you can have Lisp style syntax, you can have static types and JS style syntax with Haxe - it's designed to piggyback off C codebases well - and on its own, it makes a decent Lisp too. So there are a lot of potential benefits to building a stack centered around Lua.