Technically, Lua is a strongly typed dynamic language: it's just that most things happen to be of a single "supertype" (the table). If you need a more rigorous

Technically, Lua is a strongly typed dynamic language: it's just that most things happen to be of a single "supertype" (the table). If you need a more rigorous approach, Lua's integration with C is good enough that you can write the architectural bits in C/C++ and just use Lua for the long tail of behaviors, or go one bit better and use a language like Terra [1] that provides a C-like static language inline with your Lua code. [1]:http://terralang.org/ http://terralang.org/