[mickduprez]

Lua really is more of a 'scripting' language (like Python _used_ to be) designed to make API's/DSL's for your Game/Application so end users with minimal programming experience can 'automate' the application. It's main purpose is as a wrapper over the native application functionality to help people with limited programming knowledge or experience automate their daily tasks, not to 'extend' or build the application. It's simple, clean and quick to learn, the API does most of the hard work for you, you just tack it together as needed with a script.