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There're lisp to lua solutions like l2l[1] or moonlisp[2]

(Shameless plug: I also have a WIP hy[3] inspired lisp->lua compiler hua[4])

[1]: https://github.com/meric/l2l [2]: https://github.com/leafo/moonlisp [3]: http://hylang.org [4]: https://github.com/larme/hua

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I've looked into both l2l and moonlisp and they were too incomplete to be usable in their current state, and not being worked upon recently (or not much). The most current and interesting effort in this area in my opinion is Conspire[1], which is actually based on Terra[2], another amazing piece of software.

The decision to not go with LuaJIT was complicated and depending how it goes with S7 I probably won't take it again for a new game. For starters I doubt I will delegate any per-frame non-evented computation to the S7 side, while I could easily do it in LuaJIT. But I'm already seeing an at least 10:1 ratio of lines of code for things like building GUIs, and it's only going down even further now that I'm implementing event callbacks with lambdas and adding reactive-like system for rendering updates.

Good work on hua! I read somewhere that once you learn a Lisp you are destined to write one. I've been tempted too :)

[1]: http://blog.duangle.com/2015/01/conspire-programming-environ... [2]: http://terralang.org/

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