> Lua and similar tools can go deep into the runtime they exist in, altering system state and messing with system memory if they want to That's not correct, wh

> Lua and similar tools can go deep into the runtime they exist in, altering system state and messing with system memory if they want to That's not correct, when you embed Lua you can choose which APIs are available, to make the full stdlib available you must explicitly call `luaL_openlibs` [1]. [1] https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#luaL_openlibs https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#luaL_openlibs