There's also the book "Creating Solid APIs with Lua" by Tyler Neylon [1,2] which seems to be quite specifically addressing this idea of embedding lua in somethi

There's also the book "Creating Solid APIs with Lua" by Tyler Neylon [1,2] which seems to be quite specifically addressing this idea of embedding lua in something so as to implement highly-movable application logic in lua rather than the something you started out with. [1] https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/creating-solid-apis/9781491986301/ https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/creating-solid-apis/978... [2] https://github.com/tylerneylon/APIsWithLua https://github.com/tylerneylon/APIsWithLua