There is a whole bunch of languages compiling to Lua, see e.g. https://github.com/hengestone/lua-languages

LuaJIT is still one of the fastest VMs around and it's worthwhile to be used as a backend either by transpiling to Lua or compiling directly to LuaJIT bytecode. Here is a project which implemented both approaches: https://github.com/rochus-keller/Oberon