My previous company used Lua, in a mobile development, to a fair degree of success. Lua is used in some setup boxes, in games, for general scripting. It is a

My previous company used Lua, in a mobile development, to a fair degree of success. Lua is used in some setup boxes, in games, for general scripting. It is a simple, yet very fast scripting language, and it is usually used on top of something else, more as command and control. It has full closures, functions as first citizen, so basically you can do functional programing if that is your cup of tea. Since it's data structure is so lightweight (table is the only complex data structure) It also can be used for data serialization over the air.