All of this is also applicable to Lua, which offers all the same advantages and has the extra bonus of being very widely deployed, with tons of 3rd-party suppor

All of this is also applicable to Lua, which offers all the same advantages and has the extra bonus of being very widely deployed, with tons of 3rd-party support, in a variety of different markets. I've run rings around my fellow Java and C# devs by writing prototypes in Lua that end up being solid enough to be deployed. It really is such an amazing, powerful, underrated technology - especially in the right hands.