I hope it'll be lua. I fear it'll be javascript.

I hope it'll be Nim, I fear it'll be Julia.

Lua? Really?

That's by far the most unpleasant language I've coded in.

Lexical scope, first class functions, native coroutines, compiler available at runtime. Trivially extensible. It's semantically really close to lisp. Yep, lua's one of my favourites. The front end syntax isn't what I'd like but whatever, I can still see the AST through it with a little effort.

Obviously there are a LOT of languages you've never coded in.

Yes, I've never coded in brainfuck. But of the languages people actually use its been the most painful.

I am not using luajit for various reasons but the problem with the regular Lua interpreter is that the lua ffi backport from luajit is not included by default and the third party ones are broken on ARM.