[Spivak]

Lua is pretty uncontroversial as the embedded language of choice and is actually made specifically to be embedded and play nice with the surrounding application.

I get why they chose Python for this and it's not all that hard to embed, well the interpreter anyway, compiled modules are another story.

[TZubiri]

Yeah if what you are making are videogames.

If you are doing grown up stuff, you use a grown up language.