For the most part, you can. You can definitely use Typed Lua + nice C libraries or LuaJIT + nice C libraries. Typed Lua says it only works with Lua >= 5.2. Lua

For the most part, you can. You can definitely use Typed Lua + nice C libraries or LuaJIT + nice C libraries. Typed Lua says it only works with Lua >= 5.2. LuaJIT runs a language that is somewhere between Lua 5.1 and Lua 5.2, so it's not clear whether it will work with Typed Lua. The 5.2 requirement may just be to run tlc (and not the code it outputs), in which case you could run LuaJIT + Typed Lua + nice C libraries.