What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60,000 lines of code?

What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code

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Piccolo – A Stackless Lua Interpreter

LSON: JSON with binary in 260 lines of public domain Lua

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Lapis: A Web Framework for Lua

LuaRT: Lua programming environment for console, desktop applications for Windows

Parseback: A pure-Lua introspection library for LuaJIT's FFI ctype objects