I've made a suite of digital musical instruments for Android phones in Lua. Now I'm using same language to build some VR prototypes. Here are some benefits of

I've made a suite of digital musical instruments for Android phones in Lua. Now I'm using same language to build some VR prototypes. Here are some benefits of Lua over Python. It's really powerful language (anonymous functions, closures, tail-call optimization, full lexical scoping, coroutines...) that supports many paradigms, and yet it is tiny and elegant. There are few surprises and everything is explicit. Runtime is easily embeddable, which means it will be more readily available on exotic platforms. The interpreter is much faster than Python. C code is effortless to call into with FFI and resulting code looks just like normal Lua. Not everything is roses. I prefer readability and less verbosity of Python. The 1-indexing needs some getting used to. Batteries are not included (to be more portable), so there are dozens of implementations of basic things like serialization, OO classes and table copying. Most online material (wiki) was written very long ago and it's full of language proposals that never succeeded. Some valuable resources can be found in documentation of hosting frameworks (Defold, Solar2D, Roblox, ComputerCraft, WoW).