My first attempts at using Lua did not work very well. Until I tried to use it as an embedded scripting language, and suddenly it clicked. Shocker, I know. ;-)

My first attempts at using Lua did not work very well. Until I tried to use it as an embedded scripting language, and suddenly it clicked. Shocker, I know. ;-) But I had never tried anything like that before, and it was eye opening. And in that function, Lua is beautiful, both as seen from the C-side and as seen from the user's side when scripting the application. So this makes sense intuitively. It's what these languages were made for. C for parts that are performance critical or need to interface with the OS, Lua to orchestrate it all. I would love an editor that was basically GNU Emacs, but with Lua instead of elisp. The zile project[0] aims to do something in a similar spirit, but I don't think they have many contributors. And realistically speaking, Emacs is something like 250,000 lines of lisp code, recreating all that in Lua would take a long time. [0] https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/ https://www.gnu.org/software/zile/