Lua is also a good choice as a first language because it's a super small well-defined language that let's you transition easily to JavaScript (which has a simil

Lua is also a good choice as a first language because it's a super small well-defined language that let's you transition easily to JavaScript (which has a similar object model but is a dumpster fire) or python. Lua also integrates with C extremely well, so it can help with that transition.