Why? For what purpose? Why the fuck did you think this was

>one of the smallest footprints of any interpreter, making it perfect for embedding within larger apps
>really fucking fast for an interpreted language
that's why

LuaJIT is fucking insane

>>57274431
Yeah. I use it in game emulators that support it. I don't know what it's supposed to be for other than that.

if you couldn't figure it out from google it probably isn't a good fit for you.

It is many times easier to embed in another program than any other language. The sheer lack of quality documentation for embedding other languages (python, javascript) is enough to prove its purpose