The overall tone of the responses here are surprisingly negative and doing a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking, as if this was some kind of failure.
There are wild assumptions about their clientele and the desires of the company, completely disregarding the fact that the company did this to meet their own stated objectives.<p>They wanted something easy to deploy (single executable), easily portable, very small CPU footprint, and very small memory footprint.<p>Lua is well regarded for all these things, and the company succeeded in meeting all these objectives.<p>Congratulations Distelli. Nice job. And thanks for sharing.