I think your reasoning makes total sense and agree with the criticisms of the JS ecosystem. Just to throw out an alternative embedded-JS option for you or anyon

I think your reasoning makes total sense and agree with the criticisms of the JS ecosystem. Just to throw out an alternative embedded-JS option for you or anyone else looking to do something similar though, there’s QuickJS from Fabrice Bellard (author of ffmpeg and more) which seems to have a very Lua-like vibe to it in terms of intended use. Only used it for throwaway/toy code myself, but it’s been a generally pleasant and frictionless experience. https://bellard.org/quickjs/ https://bellard.org/quickjs/