Why Lua language isn't widespread?

Question

I can make mistake, but I rarely hear that he is used. And I know that it is used in some game engines. Howerver, these engines aren't very popular.

Answer 1

There might be trend effects or you can say the basic knowledge start of programming language is from c,java etc and such different languages one can find only when he finds anything related to them.

Check these:
https://amp.reddit.com/r/lua/comments/2uv1ph/why_isnt_lua_a_more_widelyused_language/

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Lua-scripting-language-so-hated

https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/276339/?ref=app
https://www.sololearn.com/Discuss/90136/?ref=app