Having heard _insane_ crap like "Noone uses Lua in production" at a Fortune company (while the genius who uttered that sentence had a device in his pocket that

Having heard _insane_ crap like "Noone uses Lua in production" at a Fortune company (while the genius who uttered that sentence had a device in his pocket that was _definitely_ running Lua), I agree that it's a misunderstood language. However, if anyone went as far as learning about things like arrays indexed at 1, they are far more aware than the average software engineer. They actually spent time looking at it. Lua is a victim of its own success. It's small(the runtime is tiny and can be made even smaller by shedding features), it's mostly uncontroversial, it does the job, it's fast. It can be easily sandboxed so you don't hear much about vulnerabilities. It's just there, invisible, in almost every modern computing device. The games industry is an exception. They have readily embraced it, for very good reasons. Browsers should have used it from the get go, but that ship has sailed. Next time you think about having scripting abilities in your application, consider Lua. Same way someone should consider Sqlite if they are contemplating creating a new file format for their application. It's a pretty good tool.