Nowhere in this article does it really state that they&#x27;re less productive in Lua, though. In fact, the main engineer on it is well versed in it. Your 5% may actually be negative in this case.<p>From where do you get this impression that Python is the only high productivity language in the world? There are plenty of languages that can compete with Python in terms of productivity and a lot of them offer better abstractions for it. Lua is known for being one of the best escape hatches for scripting.