As opposed to shipping LUA with C extensions? Also, there are things like shedskin: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shedskin&#x2F;shedskin" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;shedskin&#x2F;shedskin</a> - you don&#x27;t even have to ship python. Or micropython: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;micropython&#x2F;micropython" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;micropython&#x2F;micropython</a> with the code embedded. Then you can easily either shell out or include any C extensions you want.