It's the language used in my digital signage service for the Raspberry Pi (see https://info-beamer.com https://info-beamer.com & https://info-beamer.com/doc/inf

It's the language used in my digital signage service for the Raspberry Pi (see https://info-beamer.com https://info-beamer.com & https://info-beamer.com/doc/info-beamer https://info-beamer.com/doc/info-beamer). The main reason to choose Lua back when I started was the there were no serious alternatives for: * Easy embedding. Compared to Python and ruby which I looked at back then, Lua is so much simpler. * Fairly easy to learn for users. After all, the complete syntax is one page long: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8 https://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/manual.html#8 * Quite expressive with coroutines, tail calls, metatables, ... * Trivially allows multiple interpreter instances within the same program. * More than fast enough, especially once LuaJIT was released.