About the language to be used for scripting the editor

[groggily]

#338 and other issues indicated that it must be Lua. But have you explored other solutions? What about JavaScript? Python?

[SpartanJ]

Yes, I've explored other options, Lua is still the best I've found due to several reasons, I can mention a few:

• Very simple and small language
• It's very popular so many resources are available for it
• One of the easiest languages to bind (due to the two previous points)
• Performance is good and can be great with LuaJIT
• I has several languages that compile to Lua
• It's quite used in code-editors (neovim, textadept, lite-xl, etc)

Syntactically it's not my favourite language though. I do prefer AngelScript, ChaiScript or Squirrel in that sense, but they are all kinda dead these days.

I would JavaScript with some small engine (Duktape) but it's harder to bind. My plan is to try to abstract the bindings in order to be able to add more bindings in the future. Similar to what they did with Godot Engine did.