[weitzj]

Great idea. Just a tip. You can wrap your lua part into cosmopolitan C. This way you get lua on many architectures and os. Also cosmopolitan can be bootstrapped with tiny cc I guess. And personally wrapping your lua code in https://fennel-lang.org/ would be nice.

This way with libcosmopolitan, you could just checkin a copy of your build tool in a project, to be self sufficient. Think of it like gradlew( the gradle bash/bat wrapper) but completely self contained and air gapped

https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

[zcam]

+1 for fennel