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I'm not dissing Lua, but any language that strives
not to be in widespread usage is doing itself a disservice. If I embed Python (or Perl, Ruby, etc.) into an app, I have the support of a huge mass of people who have written code in that language, because it's so widespread. If I embed Javascript, pretty much the only people who will be able to instantly start working with it are web developers. Sure, there's a goddamn lot of them, but it's not as broad of a category, and as a result the level of experience and mindset of the people writing extensions for my app will be much different. Might be good, might not. If I embed Lua, all I get is a bunch of Quake players, bored programmers who have played with Lua's standalone interpreter, and a random handful of people who've already come across that other app that embedded it, and chances are very few of them will really know how to harness the full power of the language.
The other thing is, Javascript and Lua both have a serious disadvantage overall because no one looks at them and says "hey, I can make whole programs with this!" The motivation is absent beause the languages are limited.
(And suddenly I just thought about mircscript, and now I'm having a great deal of difficulty trying to figure out how it fits into this view of things. Hmm.)