It has been done, several times. A popular version is http://yueliang.luaforge.n...

catwell on April 6, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Source code for Lua 5.3

It has been done, several times.

A popular version is http://yueliang.luaforge.net/, although it only supports old Luas (5.0 and 5.1).