> C is much more likely to be the "safe" option if time x usefulness of your project is a goal. What about using Lua? Sure, different versions of the language

> C is much more likely to be the "safe" option if time x usefulness of your project is a goal. What about using Lua? Sure, different versions of the language are incompatible, but you could target a particular version. Anyone in the future who would be able to compile your C program would also be able to compile the correct version of the Lua interpreter, because it’s written in pure ANSI C. Using Lua instead of C would gain memory safety, at the expense of performance.