I sort of get that but does this hypothetical system not have a c compiler? If it does, you can compile and install lua in probably under 5 seconds and actually

I sort of get that but does this hypothetical system not have a c compiler? If it does, you can compile and install lua in probably under 5 seconds and actually have a sane language with respectable performance to target. It also seems odd to me that a place that would be so rigid about installing a tiny language runtime would be ok with checking in the artifact of an experimental programming language.