Well, Python and its ilk are getting pretty huge. And most of its programmers are pretty used to the (massive) standard library. So if you just include the inte

Well, Python and its ilk are getting pretty huge. And most of its programmers are pretty used to the (massive) standard library. So if you just include the interpreter, Python programmers will be a bit confused. With Lua, that's not an issue. Also, it is a very clean and simple language. It's basically Javascript done right. If I remember correctly, it's one of Zed Shaw's current obsessions. So I bet we're going to see some interesting combination of Lua with his new Mongrel2 project. That combined with the growing library and the packaging mechanism (rocks) might further improve the publicity of Lua for stand-alone scripting.