Why use 'regular Lua'? Never forget that Lua doesn't have to be an operating-system-available install; the LuaVM lives in many, many other contexts than script

Why use 'regular Lua'? Never forget that Lua doesn't have to be an operating-system-available install; the LuaVM lives in many, many other contexts than scriptability and execution-at-shell. Lua-based applications can be bundled into any .EXE, .app, .deb, .ipa package, as required .. and in this case, the place for it is in a very small, tight Linux VM node host, which can be spooled in the thousands at will/as needed. Opinion: As I personally have a strong interest in seeing Lua (and things like it) being used as the principle wrapping for next-gen OS's, stuff like this is terribly exciting. :)