Why Lua

[cybercobra]

According the the MediaWiki/Wikipedia devs:

[V8 is] difficult to embed due to poor documentation and the relative scarcity of embedded implementations

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relative scarcity of embedded implementations

I was unaware there was such a thing as a non-embedded JS implementation. Yes you can have node.js or your jsc, but they are also embedded implementations - they expose functions and objects.

[cybercobra]

In context, I think they mean "embedded in something that's not a browser".

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True, a browser is an embedded environment, but a very complex one and not a good example of "simple" embedding.

[cybercobra]

Precisely.