There's a layer that you could turn your head and squint and call Lua, but it's far more constrained than Lua is. They never wanted to be in a situation in the

There's a layer that you could turn your head and squint and call Lua, but it's far more constrained than Lua is. They never wanted to be in a situation in the embedded architecture where performance was dependent upon GC pauses (even incremental GC pauses). Their higher-level abstraction has tightly constrained lifecycles and is amenable to static analysis of maximum memory consumption in a way Lua is not.