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By dev.stonez
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Published: Feb 23 2012 / 00:46

In this article, I would like to discuss why you should use Lua. This all started with a message that recently popped up on the Lua mailing list regarding why isn't Lua more widely used? The answers went from randomness to lack of libraries to a variety of other things, but the one that resonated with me most was that there are fewer people who enjoy the do it yourself approach, which Lua fully embraces. I've come to think of Lua as the Arch Linux of programming languages. Which, almost by definition, means fewer people will enjoy Lua rather than more. So then why would you want to use Lua? In no particular order, here are some of the reasons why we use Lua to develop our product
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