[trinovantes]

It was pretty hard for me to get used to Lua's 1-based index and everything treated as a table

I think it's easier to mentally map concepts between C and Python than Lua

[sk0g]

Lua scripting can be more commonly performed by people without an engineering background, depending on the workplace. Game designers and level artists probably don't have much C experience, so Python's relative proximity to C is a non-factor.