Lua the language and LuaJIT the third party vm are great. But there is no general purpose standard library. Like in C one has very limited libraries that are shipped with Lua - that's fine. Though I really miss a good website with a list of additional up-to-date libraries and a community around it.
Lua needs a better project website, like PHP where you can post code examples as comments. At the momemt the Lua website is stuck in 1999. The wiki software is bad, the only way to stay in touch is the mailing list, etc. The LuaForge website is outdated. Finding various libraries is pain. Many libraries are hosted on servers that don't exist anymore or are for Lua 4 or 5.1 but not 5.2.
A lot of users use Lua in closed source software as embedded language (video games, Adobe programs, etc.)
Imagine if all those libraries that you find for Python would be available for Lua, it would be great.
Lua the language and LuaJIT the third party vm are great. But there is no general purpose standard library. Like in C one has very limited libraries that are shipped with Lua - that's fine. Though I really miss a good website with a list of additional up-to-date libraries and a community around it.
Lua needs a better project website, like PHP where you can post code examples as comments. At the momemt the Lua website is stuck in 1999. The wiki software is bad, the only way to stay in touch is the mailing list, etc. The LuaForge website is outdated. Finding various libraries is pain. Many libraries are hosted on servers that don't exist anymore or are for Lua 4 or 5.1 but not 5.2.
A lot of users use Lua in closed source software as embedded language (video games, Adobe programs, etc.)
Imagine if all those libraries that you find for Python would be available for Lua, it would be great.