Lua in 1 hour
Sergey AbbakumovIn the continuation of the previous topic, this is a video about Lua from the same author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4eNl1rA1Ns.
More about interesting features of the language:
• Tail call elimination
• Coroutines support
• Implementation of weak references that do not affect the garbage collector
Also I forgot to mention examples of Lua usage (except games, of course):
• Nginx web server modules
• CloudFlare
• Tarantool
I also note that there is a project called LuaJIT: http://luajit.org/. Using this product you can get really fast Lua programs. And the code is pretty simple and compact.