Comment by jezek2

If you like how easy is to embed Lua but not liking it's syntax or features you can try FixScript.

It's a language I've created that has C-like syntax, the implementation is a single .c file. It's unique feature is an ability to arbitrarily extend the syntax (in fact classes and the type system is implemented as a library). This can be used for specific needs of your project.

It has also an ability to have time limits for execution and is able to reload scripts in place for live code updates. It also has a JIT by default.

More information here: https://www.fixscript.org/blog/introduction