V8 is faster than LuaJIT. But sure, it has a large binary size.

Quite a fair point! For intensive plugins and such, this would matter quite a bit.

Babashka! Super fast clojure/lisp.

Isn't LuaJIT kind of a dead end?

Also Ruby has been getting quite fast since YJIT (and now ZJIT):

https://railsatscale.com/2023-08-29-ruby-outperforms-c/