Lua is a very nice little language, and is great for embedding (I'm using it for the Android game I'm currently developing). Anyone who likes the functional si

Lua is a very nice little language, and is great for embedding (I'm using it for the Android game I'm currently developing). Anyone who likes the functional side of Lua should checkout out Moonscript, which I've started using recently. Moonscript is a CoffeeScript-inspired language that compiles to Lua so can run everywhere Lua can, but has a more concise and FP-style syntax - in particular, closures are much shorter and nicer: e.g. (x) -> x * x vs. function(x) return x*x end This makes writing higher-order function code much more compact and idiomatic.