I agree Numba is great. The reason I stay clear of Python is because the Python2 → Python3 transition burned me; the bureaucrats at Debian decided that, since my open source project had one Python2 script in it I wrote many years ago, I had to update my code to make that script a Python3 script. A very toxic and arrogant attitude; old versions of languages should not be killed like that when there is so much code written in the language, and when it can be very difficult [1] to convert a script from Python2 to Python3.

Lua5.1 is much more stable by the virtue that the only updates it code gets are very minor changes to fix any lingering security issues it has (the last Lua5.1 CVE is from 2014).

[1] I guess these days a LLM can do the grunt work of converting a Python2 script to Python3.

[2] There is a project which converts Lua in to native code: https://github.com/samyeyo/clx