A person might make a language so they can learn to make a language. How could Lua exist if a person had no idea the tradeoffs in implementing various languages? You do not know the person's reasons.
You're absolutely correct, and making your own programming language implementations to generally improve as a programmer, for fun, or to get better at implementing programming languages is great. It can become a daunting task very quickly.
I was basing the person's reasoning after the original poster's reply:
> There are so many programming languages - but imho not a real easy one for beginners.
I was basing the person's reasoning after the original poster's reply:
> There are so many programming languages - but imho not a real easy one for beginners.