eLua -- Lua lovers wanted, Lua haters wanted more

[Andrew Schreiber]

First off, I have little to no experience with Lua, we used it briefly in one of my game design courses but I didn't really have a use at the time.

From what I understand it's a small language whose core was written in C, what's the benefit of using it over other scripting languages like ruby, python, or even javascript? In my experience adoption of those languages has been far larger which would create a lower barrier to utilization of this feature.

Originally Posted by Foster

I can avoid the compile-link-download binary steps, but I risk syntax errors at the Lua level.

Is it possible that Lua includes a flag to check syntax? I know Ruby does if you call ruby -c [filename].