Comment by prophesi

I would also personally prefer Elixir to Lua, but this would be great for allowing isolated/sandboxed BEAM processes to execute Lua code from your end users whom are likely unfamiliar with Elixir. As mentioned in the article, this is precisely what TV Labs uses it for to allow smart tv app developers to write and run tests for their apps.

https://docs.tvlabs.ai/scripting/introduction/getting-starte...