For a quasi embedded project I picked lua. my requirements were small runtime size + fast startup time. I would say that the library availability is tremendousl

For a quasi embedded project I picked lua. my requirements were small runtime size + fast startup time. I would say that the library availability is tremendously lower than perl,python,node but ample enough for most tasks (openwrt is almost completely built in it, including web views) However I agree that nim / zig could also be good directions