serious plus Lua to C Sharp, Java or Python that Galois teach the easiest to learn, Java is a serious thing for a sysadmin, I think Lua is just mischief, major projects will not write it, but you can learn it in a weekNo offense to the LUA users at all seriously.
Even javascript handles a lot of thing better than that. So looking at the interpreters now:
Py > Js > Lua
Python vs Lua
Lua is absolutely unreadable. It is something that was made to look really different than every other languages.
In every modern language, you use the + sign to connect variables.
var = word + word2
In lua you do:
var = word .. word2;
How to check if something is not equal with something:
1 ~= 2
Basic concept that you do in 90% of the programming languages:
1 != 2
But seriously It's just against every programming concept.
Python is thought to be useful as a general programming language while Lua is totally targeted to be an embedded scripting language.
And I didn't even mention the performance.
But LUA wins in the size. It's really small. Due to that size, It has limitations. I would say that you should start practicing some javascript or python. Both languages will make you benefit a lot later.