The problem with Lua at least is that in order to do anything remotely useful you will have to pull in a bunch of 3rd party libs from luarocks or somewhere. Th

The problem with Lua at least is that in order to do anything remotely useful you will have to pull in a bunch of 3rd party libs from luarocks or somewhere. There's basically nothing in the stdlib at all except primitive functions to build on. At least with bash the host system _is the stdlib_. And you can usually rely on that.