Comment by liberix

Maybe it's time to check out Luon [1], which has a syntax similar to Oberon and takes some concepts from Lua, it's statically typed and targets the LuaJIT VM. It was recently covered in HN [2]

[1] https://github.com/rochus-keller/Luon/blob/master/Readme.md [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42413343