> Of the myriad ways to program computers, scripting languages are the most effortless and practical variety. Of these, the web browser scripting language (JavaScript) is the fastest, most popular, and the only one with an industrial standardization process.

I haven't fully investigated in a few years, but isn't it still true that LuaJIT is is faster than V8 JavaScript? The last I saw it was outperforming V8 by a lot. The practical use of LuaJIT is still very niche though. The lack of a comprehensive standard library, and being forever stuck on Lua 5.1 makes it even less generally appealing. I still love it for programming Nginx though..