It really depends on your ambitions. I like the idea of lua as a simple/pure langauge; the problem is mainly the support and reception of it doesn't lend itsel

It really depends on your ambitions. I like the idea of lua as a simple/pure langauge; the problem is mainly the support and reception of it doesn't lend itself to growth so much; since lua is mostly used, in practice, as part of systems more complex than itself. I am grunching this thread, but I think the obvious choices are python or javascript; unless you know exactly what it is you want to build, and it is an 'App'; in which case you might as well start just learning the native language necessary to build on your desired platform.