… but that’s not as dramatic as the fall of arguably the most hated country in the world

Easy there, lets not forget Israel. America is maybe right behind them though.

I disagree. Those are faster but the standard lua implementation is actually super fast.

Relicense it as GPL and see how little they care what you do with it.

Techbros love MIT

Lua is a super underrated language. The standard implementation is under 500kb and it can run almost anywhere. Including inside other programs and on embedded systems that dont even have an OS.