Isogash

TIL I'm a 1-5 kind of person. I enjoy solving problems, but I also enjoy finding problems and seeing the solutions being used successfully.

Once you reach LuaJIT levels of performance though it's not like you need more. If you're doing a huge amount of heavy lifting in your embedded runtime then you've probably designed the application wrong.

The fat better arguments are that it's more common and there are more libraries.

Yes! It's clear the consensus is that he needs art direction to get consistency, but this is how you actually put that into action. He needs style guides 100%. It's also potentially a good longer term investment, you can re-use and adapt them.

The guide also needs to include lighting, which he has diddly-squat of.