Lua can be run without using C or C++ just by running the interpreter. The shortcoming is that the standard library is intentionally very limited so there is ve

Lua can be run without using C or C++ just by running the interpreter. The shortcoming is that the standard library is intentionally very limited so there is very little you can do using Lua alone. The main path is to implement with C or C++ bindings to the libraries you want to use and expose them as Lua module. This is the way Lua is supposed to be used.