Scripting language exploration

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• Lua (current)
  • Only has a single numeric type. Not the most ideal for byte manipulation.
• Rhai
  • Slower than Lua
  • Has i64 system integer type, but other types are exposed as "custom" types, and working with them is both harder and slower than i64
• Wasm (wasmtime?)
  • Would probably be as fast, or even faster than Lua
  • Couldn't edit/compile inside hexerator. Major disadvantage.

Ideal candidate would:

• Support all rust primitives (i8, u8, i16, u16, i32, u32, i64, u64, f32, f64, etc.)
• Be about as fast, or faster than Lua
• Optionally, could be fed a byte slice as argument, without having to clone the data