Compiling to C is definitely an option, but there are also plenty of low-hanging fruit that could come before. You could invest in a better interpreter or even

Compiling to C is definitely an option, but there are also plenty of low-hanging fruit that could come before. You could invest in a better interpreter or even some bytecode compilation first. I don't know where your rules are coming from but I would personally not be super happy with the introduction of a c compiler running user-provided strings in the middle of my application.