Why Lua? Because the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to use it? "Wikipedia chooses Lua as its new template/macro language" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?

Why Lua? Because the Wikimedia Foundation has decided to use it? "Wikipedia chooses Lua as its new template/macro language" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3534649 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3534649 "Lua chosen as new template scripting language" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-01-30/Technology_report http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/20...