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Re:Golua – A Lua 5.3 engine implemented in Go by infogulch on Friday November 16, 2018 @11:46AM (#18469850)
One of the motivations (linked in another comment) may reveal why:

> We also wanted clean and idiomatic Go APIs

If you want to use this as a scripting/plugin language for Go programs (say, for those distributed computing programs you mentioned), it's pretty defensible to make it integrate with Go better by... building it in Go.

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