It strikes this unique balance between simplicity, productivity and raw performance.

It’s certainly not the right language for all use cases. But embedded or extending, it particularly does well.

Think Python but smaller and simpler, less batteries included

There is no excitement beyond what you see on HN.

Lua is a god-forsaken, awful language where the ONLY benefit is “small”.

There’s a reason it’s only used to extend children’s games and extend stolen code based web servers.