I've made changes to the Lua/LuaJIT lexer/Parser to have a C like syntax and a program to convert Lua syntax to LJS syntax you can see it in the repositories shown bellow, the C api and language semantics remain the same.

- https://github.com/mingodad/ljs

- https://github.com/mingodad/ljs-5.4

- https://github.com/mingodad/ljs-5.1

- https://github.com/mingodad/ljsjit

- https://github.com/mingodad/raptorjit-ljs

- https://github.com/mingodad/CorsixTH-ljs

- https://github.com/mingodad/snabb-ljs

- https://github.com/mingodad/ZeroBraneStudioLJS