&quot;I had never seriously used Python before joining Distelli, so there was a bit of a learning curve&quot;<p>That was your problem, you just made a huge mistake and depending on how big your python code base was, you have now alienated most of your developers by moving to a language they are not already comfortable with.<p>Do your customers already have lua installed on their servers or are you bundling it now? You could have just a easily bundled a newer python interpreter. Lua is a nice scripting language, if you want to embed it into another app or to create a plugin system. It&#x27;s not a nice general purpose scripting language, mostly because of the vast pypi repo.