> Another reason I would STRONGLY choose Lua over any other scripting system is that the entire tool can embed Lua trivially, while Python or Ruby or Perl would

> Another reason I would STRONGLY choose Lua over any other scripting system is that the entire tool can embed Lua trivially, while Python or Ruby or Perl would each bring an entire ecosystem with it. Oh yeah, I like that idea. I'm just not so thrilled when I hear about modern build systems when they require me to install recent versions of relatively bulky scripting languages. I'm not a big fan of Lua in general, but this sounds like a perfect application.