This crate uses mlua to create a standalone lua executable.
It is written custom in the build.rs file, but inspiration from copy_to_output for a way of copying lua script files to the target directory when building examples.
.luarc.json is required for typing as it will allow for specifying the used lua version along with where the lua definition files are located.
This allows it to read and handle the rust provided types.
Also looking at rhai as it is more tightly working with rust and could allow for better functionality and typing.
Comparable to luau
Reference lua-ls/annotations for a list of usable annotations while typing.