Also note that Lightroom was written before LuaJIT was really a thing; had LuaJIT come first there might have been even more Lua in Lightroom. Like World of Wa

Also note that Lightroom was written before LuaJIT was really a thing; had LuaJIT come first there might have been even more Lua in Lightroom. Like World of Warcraft, Lua also provides a plugin system in Lightroom (but very few people use it or even know it exists).