> it hasn't been adopted for use more broadly in domains beyond just like being embedded in game engines It might not be in your particular awareness bubble. P

> it hasn't been adopted for use more broadly in domains beyond just like being embedded in game engines It might not be in your particular awareness bubble. Parts of the infrastructure that transmitted the request that allowed you to post your comment (the most prominent one is Nginx, but routers and switches with Lua-scripting do exist). In my case, I work in Kong (which has a very healthy Lua plugin), I edit my code with Neovim (Lua is its main plugin-writing language). So I kind of "live and breathe" Lua. Still I am aware of other pieces of software that embed it that I don't use (Redis, Wireshark, even Wikipedia supports Lua on its templates). One interesting characteristic of the language is that it is "barebones". It doesn't have features that are "built-in" in other languages. Things like parsing a json file or making an http request. As a result, the "host program" needs to provide those. Which ends up making "flavor Lua" - Lua with certain assumptions about the host. In this way, Lua is not "one big continuous landmass", but instead an "archipelago". This lack of central point makes it impossible to attach a "marketing/hype machine" to it. It's more like a silent revolution, the language stands on its own merits, for better or worse.