We decided to use Lua because we are leveraging OpenResty [1]. It took a while to setup the development environment, since there aren't many big, public, projec

We decided to use Lua because we are leveraging OpenResty [1]. It took a while to setup the development environment, since there aren't many big, public, projects based on OpenResty + Lua, but we are on a good track now. Lua is a very simple language, no batteries included, that's easy to learn and actually quite fun to write. It also has a package manager called Luarocks [2] (that Kong is sponsoring too). The ecosystem is still relatively young, but it's growing - and that's also thanks to tools like LuaJIT. [1] http://openresty.org/ http://openresty.org/ [2] https://luarocks.org/ https://luarocks.org/