OT complied language most like Lua?

[Patrick <spell_gooder_now@...>]

I can program in a few dynamic languages but the only compiled one I 
know is C.

C is perfect in several ways, it can run on "bare metal", it's small and 
fast but I can't transfer several useful concepts from Lua back to C. 
Simple code like this seems problematic to me in C:
SomeTable= {Lua = "fun", a = 1, b = 2, c = 1 + 2}

Is there another complied language that is similar to Lua?

Thanks for reading-Patrick