javascript vs lua

let's say i might be working on something ``secret'' and i want to embed a scripting language that isn't too off the wall for end users. i hear luajit is kinda fast and v8 is really fast and speed would be quite nice since user scripts might be called hundreds of thousands of times in short timeframes

i've heard javascript has better semantics and is generally more pleasant to use, but i want /prog/'s opinion so i don't fuck up and regret it later

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1. it's one of the most widely deployed languages ever, and it is easy to hate on popular things
it's easy to hate on things that suck, and oh wait
2. the language design has a few bright spots
like what? probably shit that other languages have done better, even before javascript existed

>>37
and yet a lot of people still think it's a good language and get hard over the fact that mozilla is dead-set against accepting native support for other languages in the browser (unless it's javascript-derived shit, that is). i hope something like nacl will take off but i'm not getting my hopes up. so now if you want to use FIOC or sepples, that ``designed in less than 3 days'' language is now a ``designed in less than 3 days'' virtual machine with a ``designed in less than 3 days'' feature set. except now it uses 10 times as much ram as native code and runs 1/5 the speed if even that.