Did you check out: https://fengari.io/ by any chance?
It doesn't solve my Lua issue unfortunately - I need several versions of lua - and fengari seems to implement lua 5.3.
Also the lua thing is just an example. I had many of such "not trivial, not too much" + "i don't really care, i need an answer and never go back to it" situations. I still long for StackOverflow with money offer for a solution.