Maybe it's a weird fetish of mine, but I always enjoy a good embeddable, scripting engine. It kind of brings me joy and hope. Can't say why. The more engines, the merrier.

I feel the same way. If you haven't seen it already, take a look at mine: https://munificent.github.io/wren/

https://github.com/munificent/vigil

"It goes without saying that any function that throws an exception which isn't caught is wrong and must be punished."