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I ported LUA to the Nintendo DS in 2007. It wasn't designed for embedded devices back then, let me tell you, it was one hell of a headache to chop down to size.

Not sure if the market for LUA has changed since then...

Still, it's a great language for scripting.

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Lua isn't made for embedded devices, it's made to be embedded into other programs and systems. It is widely used as a scripting language in games. There's even APT malware that has used Lua as a scripting language.

> Lua isn't made for embedded devices

True, however it was later adapted and ported to a number of small architectures. NodeMCU is just the most popular one of them as the EluaProject started years before even the ESP8266 was available. https://eluaproject.net/

it's still used heavily in some roblox games (they moved to their own implementation with convenience features) and openresty. https://github.com/leafo/lapis

also, minor observation: https://lua.org/about.html#name

IIRC, Factorio uses Lua for all Mod scripting.

This speaks to the performance of lua, as some of the factorio mods are quite extensive

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