>It's not Lua. I think that's a big part of the problem - the perception of Lua as a language, and not as an execution/runtime environment that happens to have

>It's not Lua. I think that's a big part of the problem - the perception of Lua as a language, and not as an execution/runtime environment that happens to have a scripting language at its core. I get your point thought - it is frustrating to have to find these things to glom into a Lua project - but on the other hand, this is a language you can embed in anything, so tacking a standard library - which may not be useful in the "anything" application - is counterproductive to the goals of Lua, which is to be a simple and easy language to embed into anything.