Sad. They didn't do their homework. They basically had the exact same requirements of the commercial video game industry which uses C/C++ and Lua to solve this

Sad. They didn't do their homework. They basically had the exact same requirements of the commercial video game industry which uses C/C++ and Lua to solve this problem. Lua had already long asserted its dominance by 2006 so it wasn't a secret. And they should have done a lot better than only 17% of the code in Python.