Lua very much hit a sweet spot in terms of performance and flexibility for proprietary codebases over the last twenty years. One or two programmers can embed it

Lua very much hit a sweet spot in terms of performance and flexibility for proprietary codebases over the last twenty years. One or two programmers can embed it into an application and expose bindings for designers rather quickly. It’s kind of a min/max of flexibility and engineering work. As engines became larger products, companies often have the resources to make something bigger for game teams. Unreal’s Blueprints, or Godot’s GDScript integrate much more tightly with the engine’s runtime.