LuaJIT is really impressive, but honestly, the stock interpreter is fast enough for me in general, and I'm fine with just moving hotspots to C as needed. I'm m

LuaJIT is really impressive, but honestly, the stock interpreter is fast enough for me in general, and I'm fine with just moving hotspots to C as needed. I'm more impressed with how concise Lua is. I've got the Lua 5.1 Reference Manual sitting in front of me. It's 103 pages for the whole language (roughly half of which is the C API), the entire syntax fits on page 95, etc. I can keep it all in my mental L1 cache, so to speak. Yet, it's expressive enough to have displaced Python as my go-to language. It's not perfect, but I'm very happy with the trade-offs it makes. I'll be psyched once it's ported to a couple more hardware platforms, though.