I believe the Lua creators' claim on this is not that it's necessarily a good API, but rather that it's "just" a better one than any other they know of :) (Or a

I believe the Lua creators' claim on this is not that it's necessarily a good API, but rather that it's "just" a better one than any other they know of :) (Or at least knew of at the time when they created Lua. But I think if they learnt of a better one in the meantime, there's a high probability they would try it, given that they're not afraid to break backwards compatibility when they see value in a change.)