Comment by wruza

It's easy to start embedding it. Once you get to metatabled userdata with shared-upvalue methods and registry refs, you wish it was just python.

The ‘batteries’ can be found in `:h lua.txt`

https://neovim.io/doc/user/lua.html

Reinventing iteration, vim.NIL, empty dict, utf-8, etc. Sorry for the snark, but I'm not surprised in the slightest and have no other emotion for that. They could have that and a whole world of packages and tools out of the box by using virtually any language except Lua.