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I really wish Lua had taken over the Python space. It's so much better as a language. At this point, though, the Python ecosystem is so huge it's very hard for me to justify investing in Lua.

It's one of those weird path-dependent things, I guess.

[jmiskovic]

Lua has chosen a minimalistic 'batteries-excluded' strategy to ease the integration into host platforms. That strategy worked wonderfully - Lua was always a popular choice for embedding into various platforms (Roblox, Ngnix, Neovim, VLC, Wireshark...).

Python made interfacing just about anything a simple job, which is why it succeeded as "glue" language and automation tool. It is a completely different area than what Lua was designed for even though they are both called a scripting language.

In an alternate timeline Lua could have been used in JavaScript's place though. The web would have benefited from Lua's simplicity and speed.