What baffled me when I researched the various Transpiled-to-Lua languages is the fact that most of them insist on dragging their runtimes with them for some str

What baffled me when I researched the various Transpiled-to-Lua languages is the fact that most of them insist on dragging their runtimes with them for some strange reason. Why would I want that? Considering the common role Lua serves, in most cases where I won't be even in a position to install anything besides the single source file I can distribute. All I want is some quality of life improvements (that includes types). Write in that, then get a single Lua file as output. Nim does that with its JS-backend beautifully. I forgot if Fennel can do that (seems that's what it means by Ahead-Of-Time compilation), but it's not typed so I passed on it. I might reconsider, as I gave up on the search last time.