Lua and JavaScript are both examples of dynamic languages where the performance is really impressive. Lua (like plain JavaScript) is a more spartan development

Lua and JavaScript are both examples of dynamic languages where the performance is really impressive. Lua (like plain JavaScript) is a more spartan development experience than Ruby or Python. I'm not sure what it is; but languages with rich OO seem to be what get picked up by people who need to build "applications" (windows where people click around in them).