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When it is a new language, you fight for space into another languages turf, your "potential" is illimited, if your language is better, it will win.

This language is obviously made to use with Lua and C at the same time, kind of a bridge of sorts, and thus it has much more limited scope and utility, and many of the uses of Lua even if they might need Terra performance, they cannot shoehorn Terra on their interpreter.

For example for coders of Corona SDK, or WoW, or many other game engines and application SDKs out there that rely on Lua.




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