@Kerosene @Inginsub @pwm on the flipside, it IS a competent language in that it works and I've never seen it actually fuck up in a real world scenario. Survives contact with real computers and all that.

The developers of lua even say that it's not meant to be the backbone of a big program like python is. It's supposed to compete with things like custom file formats.

People don't use it like that because once you develop some infrastructure for it, it's way too easy to get sucked into the process and before you know it every other function has some hook into a .lua file and you're stuck with a slow unmaintainable mess until the end of time.

I would recommend just staying away unless there really isn't another option.