> We believe JavaScript is the natural choice for dynamic language tooling; whether in a browser environment or as standalone processes.

I disagree with this assessment. Lua is still far superior as an embed-able scripting language/runtime. I suspect the preference for JavaScript is mostly due to the Deno developers' familiarity and preference.

> Lua is far superior

I disagree with this assessment.

VWWHFSfQ

LuaJIT is nearly 3x faster than V8 JavaScript the last time I checked. Just anecodal DDG search [0]. Maybe V8 has gotten faster since the last time I checked.

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=is+luajit+faster+than+v8+ja...

rosywoozlechan

Lua also has a smaller footprint I think.

hombre_fatal

It has a worse standard library than Javascript. And its static typing solutions don't compare to Typescript.

wyozi

Funnily enough the state of art in typed lua is typescript: https://github.com/TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua