As who wrote so many lines of Lua and even made a type checker for that at work... I think you need to explain which part of Lua do you miss. 'Cause many aspect

As who wrote so many lines of Lua and even made a type checker for that at work... I think you need to explain which part of Lua do you miss. 'Cause many aspects of Lua come from being strictly embedded, which precluded many otherwise valid and better options.