Interesting as I've just recently turned to learning Lua for use precisely as it is described as a "scripting language". Out of several dozen alternatives (the

Interesting as I've just recently turned to learning Lua for use precisely as it is described as a "scripting language". Out of several dozen alternatives (the other scripting languages from a list on Wikipedia), my analysis is that Lua offers a very compelling and attractive technical profile. I haven't been using it long, but so far I haven't seen evidence otherwise. Prior to Lua I would have used Bash, or maybe Python in a pinch.