Comment by patrec

I'm not disagreeing with your assessment that lua has serious warts (that have basically no upside, unlike say no "true" integer type, which has pros and cons). I'm just saying your portrayal is a bit lopsided, there are various aspects in which lua is a more elegant design than other dynamically typed languages like python, ruby, perl, scheme etc. I.e. small footprint and good embedding story are not the only merits of the language.