I agree with all of the above and will ad a few things that attracted me to use Lua as the scripting language for our game engine: - Data can be easily constru

I agree with all of the above and will ad a few things that attracted me to use Lua as the scripting language for our game engine: - Data can be easily constructed inline without a lot of extra syntax - The interpreter is very fast - Functions as first class objects - Closures - Meta-tables All of these things make Lua very expressive and concise for designers, while giving a lot of control to make things work correctly to the programmers. A few cons: - the built in error handling is not great, we corrected it. - variables are global by default, which can make typos become runtime errors, we corrected this as well