LuaJIT makes Lua stand out from Tcl, Python and others. But you really need to ask yourself if you need that performance. If you just need something to glue var

LuaJIT makes Lua stand out from Tcl, Python and others. But you really need to ask yourself if you need that performance. If you just need something to glue various components together I would suggest Tcl. Tcl's syntax makes it really easy to use for simple things, and the C API is really nice to work with. Though Tcl is not a good idea for larger code bases IMHO, or code that needs to run fast.