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> The number one benefit you should get from a scripting language as opposed to a compiled one is higher productivity

As I understand it, neither lua nor python are compiled languages, they're both dynamic, scripting languages. Which one do you think is a compiled language?

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> The number one benefit you should get from a scripting language (Lua) as opposed to a compiled one (C) is higher productivity

OP is saying that since Lua is cumbersome to write you might as well write in C and get increased performance.

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