[SanderSantema]

Lua wasn’t made for scripting video games but as a scripting language for a mining company if I remember correctly from this excellent paper[1]. I can highly recommend all the other ACM hopl papers too for those interested in the history of programming languages. The papers don’t seem to be open access but sci-hub might help with that if you’re so inclined.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3186277

[osigurdson]

I once met Waldemar Celes, one of the co creators of Lua. It was meant for use within a tool called Geresim for visualizing large 3D models of oil/gas reservoirs - primarily for Petrobras, the Brazilian national oil company.

[carterschonwald]

The hopl paper on lua seems to indicate it came out of a Brazil university. https://www.lua.org/doc/hopl.pdf

[airstrike]

Indeed. It was created at PUC-Rio, my alma mater

[tomjakubowski]

Lua means moon in Portuguese! (cognate of Luna)

[winrid]

and there is also moonscript which transpiles to Lua!

[zendist]

This one? https://www.lua.org/doc/cacm2018.pdf

[jf]

I’d love to see your other suggestions!