>>395263336
garbage programmers write garbage code (wow children write garbage code, surprise??)
the language itself is more than fine and powerful enough for whatever you may need in cases such as this
it's also well established in video games due to the points stated earlier
here, you can recreate Peggle as a WoW addon using Lua
https://github.com/ketho-wow/wow_peggle
https://github.com/Nighthawk42/wow_bejeweled/tree/master/Bejeweled

>>395263609
I already said, it's much smaller, much faster, easier to embed into other software and LuaJIT improves the performance even more
>nobody ever heard of
>WoW
>Cryengine
>Cheat Engine
>Apache
>Gmod
>Roblox
>mpv
>shitton of other popular extendable software
yea I'm done arguing with you literal troglodytes