Lua is more like a C library and less like a VM. (Similarly, LLVM isn't a VM, which is a common misunderstanding, given the name) As far as I know, people don

Lua is more like a C library and less like a VM. (Similarly, LLVM isn't a VM, which is a common misunderstanding, given the name) As far as I know, people don't ship code to remote Lua VMs and execute it. There is no compatibility guarantee across versions, and there are nontrivial compile-time options (like what the number type is). That doesn't mean Lua isn't useful; it's just not designed for the same things that WASM is.