[finnw]

But if they are developers why would they not want to modify their own C code (to add an embeddable JS interpreter?)

[aaronblohowiak]

js interpreters are not as friendly as lua for embedding.

[zhemao]

Exactly, I've worked with the Lua C API before, it was fairly easy to use. I've looked at the V8 API before. Compared to Lua, it is far more complicated.