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Re:A History of Lua (2001) by leephillips on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:37AM (#32408832)
Lua and lualatex allow access to TeX internals and (relatively) easy programming of typeset documents: https://lwn.net/Articles/731581/.

Lua is the official language for writing Pandoc filters.

And, of course, NeoVim.

These are the contexts in which I use it; its embedding into TeX and Pandoc provides some powerful capability.

Re:A History of Lua (2001) by ggm on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:52AM (#32408954)
> Lua is the official language for writing Pandoc filters

Given pandoc is written in haskell.. an interesting choice. I guess investing in a DSL syntax was a cost too far.