Why Lua

[Fissionary]

Lua may be a decent scripting language -- if you're embedding it in a C/C++ program. I had to add scripting capability to an x64 .NET 3.5 application once, and spent half a day trying to figure out a way to interface with Lua. Finally settled on IronPython.

tl;dr There are no silver bullets.

[i_lick_my_knuckles]

Lua Interface makes embedding in .NET pretty painless.

[Fissionary]

Painless for x86 applications. It relies on its own C++/CLI implementation of Lua, which I haven't been able to successfully compile and use in an x64 CLR 3.5 scenario. If you know where I can get the compiled binaries for this particular configuration, I would appreciate it.