At my last company (that's still going, I've just sold out and moved on. . . ) I used Lua for the lion's share of our kiosk content distribution platform. It wa

At my last company (that's still going, I've just sold out and moved on. . . ) I used Lua for the lion's share of our kiosk content distribution platform. It was perfect, especially considering how many times we had to dip down into C or C++ to get at devices. We built out a tiny host C program that dynamically loaded in modules and frameworks as needed on each kiosk. It was beautiful, FAST, and cross platform (XP/Linux/OS X). I'm back in the web world these days but I miss Lua quite a bit, it's a fantastic little language. Really, if you're building desktop software I couldn't recommend it highly enough.