Comment by lopatin

I think it's a stretch to call it underrated. Isn't it the defacto language for embedded scripting stuff? I've seen it used as a mini language in production in game engines, databases, and trading systems.

On the other hand, if the article is saying that it deserves to be more highly rated in the non-embedded space, I think I would need more than a handful of syntactical niceties to explain why it deserves to be in the same conversation as Python, Ruby, etc...