I respect Lua. Not bad for a Toy Scripting Language.

On my new laptop building entire Lua takes 1.5s with 16 threads

they should add this as a marketing clip on their website

There is only one true 'toy' language, and it's not Lua.

You mean this one?

One of the few good things that Brazilians managed to create before going crazy in this third world hell.

🫂

One day someone will make a JIT easily embeddable scripting language with value semantics and 0-based arrays and they will be a millionaire. (With "millionaire* I mean they will a few hundred stars on GitHub.)

Come to Brazil, we have nice weather and fast scripting languages.

Lua itself is also pretty fast. With LuaJIT, it is no problem to implement for example an audio echo effect with 48 kHz sample rate in realtime, which I tested in combination with VCV Rack and my own Lua plugin.

I quite like this text about how Lua evolved, and how it avoided bloat. It’s written by the authors of the language.