update: I wrote my own pure-Lua Lua parser thingy (sort of)

["Soni \"They/Them\" L." <fakedme@...>]

So I decided to try and write my own pure-Lua Lua parser thingy and I 
think I have a working lexer/tokenizer.

https://cybre.tech/SoniEx2/lua.cratera

It's a long way from doing what I want it to do, but at least it seems 
to split the tokens correctly.

(wonder how I found that lua 5.2+ number parsing maybe-bug :p)