Teal is great for this - statically typed and compiles down to lua. I’ve even integrated it into other languages because teal is written in teal (compiling down

Teal is great for this - statically typed and compiles down to lua. I’ve even integrated it into other languages because teal is written in teal (compiling down to lua, which can be run on lots of different devices!) https://github.com/teal-language/tl https://github.com/teal-language/tl