What is so great about Lua?

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

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).

Lua is a nice language but it is not suitable for beginners .