For many, Lua is primarily known as the Roblox language. Pretty impressive that it's the language of use in a game (/set of games) with 380 million monthly active players - currently the most popular in the world.

Before then it was the World of Warcraft UI mod language. Spawned a pretty sizable ecosystem around it, though I imagine Roblox puts it to shame.

Yes, with Lapis[1].

[1] https://leafo.net/lapis/

Lapis is very cool, but I really struggle with a lack of examples and pre-built solutions for some things.

Leafo's itch.io is built with it and I maintain snap.berkeley.edu. A great tool, but I'm also many times more productive in Rails. (It's an unfair comparison, to be sure!) and Openresty + Lapis is quite performant and low overhead which is great.

Looks promising. Thanks for sharing!

Hell no, keep it small as is, no influence from big corporations and no enshittification (or having a "DHH problem" in Lua community)

I see your point. I've just craved a rails-like experience in Lua for a while and don't believe there's anything out there yet built on Lua that can match with the big boys (rails, .NET, etc.)

Thats probably why I use it - no corporates and gamers use it so it doesn't get enshittified like java/c#/c++ etc no committees either.