Fennel is a lispy language that transpiles to, maintains the semantics of, and seamlessly interacts with Lua! It’s a fun little language to mess around in, and does a good job showing off some of Lua’s Scheme heritage, while also using some compile-time features to smooth out lua's rougher edges (checking use of undefined variables, macros, local variables by default…)
Check it out and celebrate 1.0 with us!