Lua is weird, but it's competitors are also weird. Tcl, Scheme, Perl and Javascript are all at least as quirky if not more. JS in particular is at least as "dre

Lua is weird, but it's competitors are also weird. Tcl, Scheme, Perl and Javascript are all at least as quirky if not more. JS in particular is at least as "dreaded". There are a few more "normal" alternatives, but they're less popular and have even smaller ecosystems than Lua, where package availability is already bad. Python and Ruby are huge by comparison and don't embed all that well.