LUA, worth it?

How about an opinion on LUA from /prog/? Don't believe it's been mentioned much around here.

Anything good able to be made with it?

I think it's unfortunate that Lua does not have bignums, bitshift operators, unicode, or regular expressions, but you really can't expect something like that in a small language meant for embedding.

It's good at what it does at. My only regret is it doesn't look like Lua will outgrow its niche. Maybe if they came up with something like CPAN or gems.

Having said that, the ability to interface easily with C isn't to be laughed at. It's no FFI, but it means you can do almost anything with it fairly painlessly.