Quite the opposite, Lua is one of the leanest and most efficient dynamic language implementations out there. Its design is actually really clean, if you take t

Quite the opposite, Lua is one of the leanest and most efficient dynamic language implementations out there. Its design is actually really clean, if you take the time to learn it. Here is a tour guide of the code base, written by Mike Pall (author of LuaJIT, not Lua, but obviously quite familiar with the Lua code base): http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/63hth/ask_reddit_which_oss_codebases_out_there_are_so/c02pxbp http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/63hth/ask_reddi...