Lua has an extremely clean simple design and a small API . I think this is the reason that it has the world’s fastest JIT implementation for a dynamic scripting language. Lua is extremely popular within the gaming market because of its speed (see also speed compared to python).
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Lua is a nice language but it is not suitable for beginners .
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Originally Answered: Is Lua worth learning? Lua is a very concise and powerful language . That is quickly losing relevance. It’s wonderfully sparse, while still being very powerful and expressive.22 Ara 2014
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