Not so, for the same reason that low level languages are more effective computationally but less easy to describe and more difficult for code development.<p>Lua is more low level and has an extremely isolated and fractured community relative to the current Python ecosystem. It is also non-intuitive and has negligible benefits compared to the current scientific Python ecosystem.<p>I find the abstractions offered by Python and its standard library to be very easy to comprehend, write, and maintain relative to Lua.