Off the top of my head what makes Lua an excellent tool for the modern developer: 1. You can put it anywhere you've got a C compiler. Any collection of C libr

Off the top of my head what makes Lua an excellent tool for the modern developer: 1. You can put it anywhere you've got a C compiler. Any collection of C libraries can be glommed into the Lua VM and made into a framework - with a modern scripting environment - with relative ease. 2. The language is very easy to learn, and easy to teach. Its simplicity yields a lot of power, too. 3. App logic in Lua, App engine in C. Enough said. ;)