Lua: simple syntax like Basic, powerful and conceptually similar to Javascript, used as scripting language in many video games (from World of Warcraft to Crysis

Lua: simple syntax like Basic, powerful and conceptually similar to Javascript, used as scripting language in many video games (from World of Warcraft to Crysis) similar to VBA/Office, has a state-of-the-art and very fast JIT virtual machine "LuaJIT" like JS V8, JavaVM