Perhaps, but I don't think the situation would be as awful as you suggest. It is possible to write significant revenue-producing commercial software using Lua

Perhaps, but I don't think the situation would be as awful as you suggest. It is possible to write significant revenue-producing commercial software using Lua for control logic calling compiled modules, and expect it to perform every bit as fast as a similar app written 100% in a compiled language. I'm surprised no one has mentioned Lightroom yet. http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/10/09/lua-in-lightroom/ http://www.sauria.com/blog/2008/10/09/lua-in-lightroom/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Lightroom http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Lightroom