>>Lua seems to be coming on strong as a popular programming language (see Tiobe and also google it). Probably because it's used for iphone/iPad/Android and in .NET - truly a versatile programming environment. My prediction is that this IS the one language to concentrate on, MS be damned..
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>I went into the LUA page and tried to find a reference .NET. I was unable to. Are you sure this has any relation with .NET at all?
It's a non-MS open source tool embedded in .NET as a scripting engine and is truly cross-platform so it probably should have a separate general category, not in .NET:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/lua.nethttp://ttuxen.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/embedding-lua-in-dotnet/http://www.lua.inf.puc-rio.br/luanet/http://www.gamedev.net/page/resources/_/reference/programming/sweet-snippets/using-lua-with-c-r2275Lua would probably be considered a competitor to Razor as a scripting language. In addition to all the portable device programming it does, it supports multithreading and web development too.
I personally first saw LUA being used to write PlayON scripts embedded in .NET on Windows to access various video content from web sites on my TV. The first way to get this functionality from PlayON was to write a .NET plugin but it became MUCH easier to do after they intrduced doing the same with LUA scripts. The result: many more channels and content.
