Lua
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Dec 24, 2025first mention
Jul 3, 2026latest mention
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All comments 7
“I decided to put message formatting into a scripting layer using gopher-lua.”
“A very naive fibonacci computation, where we were faster than Lua”
“I have been working on scripting in Rust recently on a Lua project”
“Lua5.1 made the most sense to me”
“maybe use Lua/LuaJIT for scripting”
squirrel: http://squirrel-lang.org/
I transpiled the runtime into wasm and made an interactive shell: https://thecatbutt.com/lua/