[Ennea]

Out of curiosity, why not Lua?

[szundi]

Is Lua performance sensitive? Other guess is Javascript is much more programmer friendly than Lua.

[nequo]

Some would argue Lua is friendlier than JS.

LuaJIT is pretty good as far as performance goes. In these benchmarks, sometimes slower than Node/Bun but uses consistently less memory too:

https://programming-language-benchmarks.vercel.app/lua-vs-ja...

[chipsrafferty]

Why Lua?