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William is really talking more about selecting programming languages and Lua and C certainly cover a lot of programming use cases.

I have my own comfort zone (Clojure, JRuby, and Java with IntelliJ and RubyMine) and I am glad William has his.

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His Arduino callout limits the available practical options greatly. In his situation minus Arduino, I'd go with Go. It works really well on ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi and all the way up to Windows/Linux/Mac x64.

Go is my current first-choice language if I have the choice. Of course, in today's very segmented platform (web, desktop Windows, desktop Mac, desktop Linux, Android, iOS, WinPhone, et al) era, there's really no one language for everything. Even C falls down in some areas.

HaXe and HaXeNME come pretty close. Especially NME with which you can create GUIs and games compile to c++, compile to html5 using jeash, create native phone apps, and compile SWFs all from the same code. With HaXe itself the code usually needs a bit of modifying depending on the target. They added java recently to it which is not yet available for NME. If anything; it's fun to play with.

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