Yeah, the only real advantage of lua is that you can link your code into the binary, and that it&#x27;s super lightweight. But you can still deploy a python binary with your code, so the only real reason for switching is, &quot;I like lua, and I felt the need to make my team switch.&quot;<p>Not that I don&#x27;t lua. It&#x27;s like the best parts of javascript, mixed with some AWK and scheme, with all the crap removed. OTOH, from-1 indexing is evil.