In case the author is here: did you consider Tcl? Or QuickJS? I’ve written maybe 20k lines of Lua (and embedded it twice), but… I just don’t want to deal with

In case the author is here: did you consider Tcl? Or QuickJS? I’ve written maybe 20k lines of Lua (and embedded it twice), but… I just don’t want to deal with its idiosyncrasies (especially one-based indexing and loops) anymore. If I had to embed a language today, I’d probably try QuickJS first. Tcl also sounds similar to what you described (although I’ll admit I’ve only written trivial amounts of Tcl). Edit: I ask because I’m also interested in a simple runtime I can maintain myself (if needed).