Well, then that's library dependent and not an intrinsic part of the language. So shipping Lua safely would mean having to swap or drop parts of the standard li

Well, then that's library dependent and not an intrinsic part of the language. So shipping Lua safely would mean having to swap or drop parts of the standard library for something a bit more robust. Apparently, that's what Lunatik does so the work seems to already have been done.