Not defending the grandparent&#x27;s post, but LuaJIT <i>is</i> actually faster than Java or C#. Hell, it&#x27;s faster than raw C in certain cases because it can optimize better due to being a simpler language. Mike Pall is a god amongst man.<p>I think it&#x27;s due to LuaJIT being one of the very few tracing JITs that are still in development, since they are notoriously difficult to write and maintain.