function say.greet()
   print("Lua rocks!")
end

I love Lua as a language it's fantasticly simple, no word of a lie, you can learn all of Lua in around an hour.

If your here reading this you might already know what Lua is and why it's a bit special with it's relationship to C, it's no wonder Lua is big in the game dev world as the scripting language of choice.

Brazil have the most interest, no surprises being the origin of this wonderful language, actually on the subject, Lua is the only language to gain any traction originating from a less developed country in the world.

In web development, Lua can be used and is a major component of OpenResty, aka Nginx's cousin. And yet it has little importance in web development, there are some who wish that Lua could be a direct competitor to JavaScript.

If your wondering, "but does it web?" yes, yes it does, we can run Lua in the browser through Wasm or in node via my node Wasm project (my hopes to make a multiplayer game with Lua game engines), ironically the Lua will be faster than the JavaScript. but honestly it's a toy project.

If a language is dieing a slow death can it ever hope to recover, what does it take to do that?