Lua was developed, by necessity, in Brazil, during a time where trade policies

made it prohibitively expensive to purchase licensed software from elsewhere in

the world. It was designed to be portable and easy to learn for non-technical
users. Lua has become popular among novice game developers as a scripting
language.

Lua is a niche language with few jobs available. Learning Lua may make you a
better, more well-rounded developer, but it isn’t likely to land you a job.