LuaJIT adds another massive speed-up on top of the already healthy Lua performance. http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html http://luajit.org/performance_x86.ht

LuaJIT adds another massive speed-up on top of the already healthy Lua performance. http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html http://luajit.org/performance.html http://luajit.org/performance.html That said, I do agree that Lua can be more cumbersome than Python or Ruby.