Cucumber Matlab

I'm planning to use Cucumber for Matlab development. As far as I can tell I have two options:

1: Use Cucumber in Java/C++/... and call Matlab over the API in my step definitions
https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/external-language-interfaces.html

2: Implement a Matlab API in one Cucumber implementation, so the step definitions are written in Matlab and called through the Matlab API. This Implementation would also need to create the definition skeletons/templates as Matlab script.

Since option 1 means a lot of extra work for writing the step defintions, I'm trying to evaluate how much work option 2 would take. Maybe a developer could provide a guestimate and/or point me in the correct direction to get started?