Any rewrite is going to be superior to the old code (in any language).<p>It sounds like the author just wanted to move it to Lua to me. I would only go with Lua over Python if you needed something more embeddable. Like the game scripting usecase it&#x27;s known for. The lost libraries and language features may make some things harder. I package up Python and my code, deploy it to other platforms all the time with under 5MB footprint in a single executable using PyInstaller.<p>That said, it&#x27;ll work out fine with Lua. My question would be who will maintain something years down the road. There&#x27;s far more Python devs than Lua. The blog said he joined in 2014 so it may end up being someone else.