[maximilian]

> I had seen this about 6 months ago but dismissed it because the programming language, Lua, looked weird and I’d never heard of it.

This what surprised me most about the post. Lua is not especially strange, by any means, and also fairly well known. Obviously, its hard to compare my experience with his experience, but nonetheless I was quite surprised he said something like that.

[justincormack]

It is not alas that well known, although much more so in the last few years. It has reached number 20 on github though now. A lot of people use it but do not really talk about it much, eg in game development.

[BystanderX]

Probably doesn't help that most of the code is tied up in scripts for games, and public development is hosted in places like curseforge and wowinterface.

[bromagosa]

I was extremelly surprised, especially when Lua is actually famous as a game scripting language!

«a language which may not please the purists»

I would have stopped reading here, but the article was already over...