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> But everyone agrees the programming experience in the language is awful.

Simply not true. The power to weight ratio of Lua is amazing. You can keep the entire language in your head easily, and even without LuaJIT it’s crazy fast. It’s great for creating DSLs. As a configuration language it is excellent- in fact that’s how Lua originally came to exist.

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DSLs and configuration languages aren't "programming experience" though. (Also that's oversold, you should be on a lisp if that's the design goal, Lua is a distant second.)

I stand by what I said. Lua sucks for coding. The only people who like it are ones who haven't mastered one of the "real" environments.