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As already discussed in ‘Lua as a general-purpose scripting language?‘ Lua currently probably isn’t the best scripting language for the desktop environment.
But what do you think about the future? Will Lua get so popular that there will soon be enough libraries to be able to use it like Python, Ruby or something similar?
Or will it simply stay in it’s WoW niche and that’s it?
I think it has a great future, a lot of projects are starting to adopt it for it’s simplicity and usefulness.
Example: Awesome WM (Window Manager)
The project recently released version 3, incorporating a new configuration system completely written in Lua. Allowing you to literally write your configuration file as a program, loops, booleans, data structures. Personally I love the syntax and the flexibility of such a system, I think it has great potential.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it became more popular in the future.
Brian G