Comment by jillesvangurp

> It's very popular for writing scripts in (older) game engines.

Exactly, it seems popular in places where the alternative is even less usable (e.g. write your own C++ plugin or thing). For that it's fine.

For example, there is a lua plugin for x-plane and it's great. I've done some minor things with it even. But that didn't make me a fan of the language. It's fine for simple things. But a bit limited.

The x-plane API is pretty low level and written in C++. So something that sits on top and is a bit more accessible is great. There are a lot of lua scripts available that you can run in there that are pretty nice. But the more complicated ones get pretty hairy quickly. Makes you long for something more structured.

I don't have the time, but I did consider working on adding a websocket API at some point to make it easier to integrate with from e.g. a web page or some kind of standalone process. I think they are now planning to add that feature themselves so there's no need to work on this anymore. And they have a low level UDP API currently that exposes all sorts of things. But a websocket API with some good client libraries for different languages would make a lot of sense.