You shouldn't dismiss Lua outright, it's a language designed specifically for embedding, there's practically nothing to learn to begin using it productively. S

You shouldn't dismiss Lua outright, it's a language designed specifically for embedding, there's practically nothing to learn to begin using it productively. See this presentation by a core Neovim maintainer that explains why Lua was chosen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP3J56sKtn0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP3J56sKtn0. See also http://lua-users.org/wiki/MechanismNotPolicy http://lua-users.org/wiki/MechanismNotPolicy to understand Lua's core design.