Heartily agree on Lua. Embedding lua was one of the best library experiences I've ever had. The implementation and language is small and simple, and I think man

Heartily agree on Lua. Embedding lua was one of the best library experiences I've ever had. The implementation and language is small and simple, and I think many people undervalue that. Compiling it was as simple as dragging the source files into Xcode (not an ideal long term solution, but quick and easy to compile to any target, and at 10k lines of code, reasonable compile times). As a comparison, I spent 3 days trying to compile Spidermonkey for ARM (with eventual success attributed mostly to finding a useful patch on github).