I work for a major worldwide game developer, and our project currently uses Lua for a lot of dynamic scripting and behaviour control (the rest of the game is in

I work for a major worldwide game developer, and our project currently uses Lua for a lot of dynamic scripting and behaviour control (the rest of the game is in C++). I've been pushing for a higher usage of it, as it allows a lot more runtime iterating than with C++, where the compile+link+load times on a project this large are killer, whilst Lua can easily be hot reloaded. Of course, the same goes for any scripting language (I've worked with a proprietary script language at my last dev shop), but I like the fact that lua is light, minimalist, clear and a standard that others will know, but also very extensible. I'd definitely say the the small core and lack of huge external libraries is a good thing, when you're developing for fixed hardware like game consoles.