Lua as a language for writing bots

[farooqkz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
This game could serve well as an educational game for children to have both fun and profit. But the current languages Tank Royale support, including Typescript which is planned are the simplest. The best current choice is Python. But Python has some complexities where what you expect doesn't happen.

Describe the solution you'd like
Lua has got the following advantages:

• The language is very small and simple and thus very easy to learn. In fact, Lua was created with non programmers in mind.
• Thanks to the simplicity, many other languages can be translated/compiled to Lua code. So supporting Lua means you also get support for many other languages for free.
• Because of the reason above, that is the simplicity, it's possible to create languages which compile to Lua and are not based on English language. This brings new advantages for people and children who don't know English. Coding in their own language will make it more natural and fun for them, spending less mind power, which results in more free mind power for the robot algorithm.

Describe alternatives you've considered
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Additional context
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[flemming-n-larsen]

Tank Royale already supports Java, C#, and Python, with TypeScript on the way (being tested these days). Web support was planned from the very beginning, and Python was my take on the educational/beginner use case, and has already been well received.

Adding Lua would mean yet another API to build and maintain in parallel — and any change made to one API must be replicated across all the others, which is a significant ongoing effort.

That said, if someone is motivated to implement and maintain a Lua API themselves, I'm open to it. I would prefer it lives in a separate branch rather than the main line, or as an independent project maintained alongside Tank Royale.