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A comment on Lua 5.4.0 beta. Parent comment
* Easy embedding. Compared to Python and ruby which I looked at back then, Lua is so much simpler.
* Fairly easy to learn for users. After all, the complete syntax is one page long: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8
* Quite expressive with coroutines, tail calls, metatables, ...
* Trivially allows multiple interpreter instances within the same program.
* More than fast enough, especially once LuaJIT was released.
* Easy embedding. Compared to Python and ruby which I looked at back then, Lua is so much simpler.
* Fairly easy to learn for users. After all, the complete syntax is one page long: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8
* Quite expressive with coroutines, tail calls, metatables, ...
* Trivially allows multiple interpreter instances within the same program.
* More than fast enough, especially once LuaJIT was released.