Unfortunately lua still waits for a great adoption in ML communities. By now, ML is dominated by python, julia and matlab.I think lua (especially by LuaJIT) is

Unfortunately lua still waits for a great adoption in ML communities. By now, ML is dominated by python, julia and matlab.I think lua (especially by LuaJIT) is a really strong player in this ground with a great libraries and research projects. I'm waiting for some lua data mining oriented conferences.