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It's used for some configuration/ scripting in NetBSD, after Marc Balmer pushed the idea a few years back.

Some links:

- The Lunatik GSoC project - http://netbsd-soc.sourceforge.net/projects/luakern

- Marc Balmer's FOSDEM'13 paper - http://www.netbsd.org/~mbalmer/lua/lua_config.pdf

I gather that the principal virtues of Lua for this purpose are:

1. Lua tables have a nice syntax

2. Lua's load function is very fast

3. Lua has a small, well-tested trusted code base

4. It has a sane semantics for dynamic loading




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