It actually is a case of that. In his own words: "I liked Python object model and wanted to have it in Lua, and spending time rewriting Python is just not wor

It actually is a case of that. In his own words: "I liked Python object model and wanted to have it in Lua, and spending time rewriting Python is just not worth it. I probably should have chose Python, not Lua. YMMV." I guess he needs to learn more about compilers/interpreters implementation to understand that the reasons he dislikes Lua are the same reasons that make it fast and small and embeddable.