waffle is a Lua execution environment, meant to be batteries-included.
The "twist" is that this isn't PUC Lua, it's backed by gopher-lua and several preloaded modules.
Go's stdlib is comprehensive and I'm used to gopher-lua after using it in several projects.
There's no design goal other than having fun.
Lots of modules come from vadv/gopher-lua-libs - many thanks to vadv and
contributors.