> ... but Lua still creates issues now and then. Like if you forget return, the return value is that of the last expression.
Is this true? Or was it true for some Lua 2.X versions? Because it does not seem to be the case for Lua 3.0 and on: [1]
> If control reaches the end of a function without a return instruction, then the function returns with no results.
As to the idea of using an emulator for scripting, it seems a bit similar to approaches using WebAssembly. But looking into the benchmarks [2] provided by libriscv, it is quite interesting to see it outperforms luajit and wasm3 (in its "hand-picked" tests, at the very least).
[1] https://www.lua.org/manual/3.0/manual.html [2] https://github.com/fwsGonzo/libriscv?tab=readme-ov-file#benc...