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Why did LibreCAD choose Lua for its scripting interface?

Posted by justinnoor on Mar 20, 2020; 5:15pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Why-did-LibreCAD-choose-Lua-for-its-scripting-interface-tp5718588.html

This is not meant to start a flame war - it is a sincere technical inquiry about the advantages of using Lua over other scripting languages for LibreCAD’s scripting interface.

Why did LibreCAD choose Lua? Did it consider other scripting languages? Why were those languages declined?