title: Can Lua be used for application development?
body: <p>With intermediate knowledge of VB6, recently people have been suggesting to "upgrade" to a new language. I'm thinking about Lua - it's easy, simple and speedy. But there doesn't seem to be any infomation about creating applications similar to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K3b" rel="noreferrer">K3b</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CTorrent" rel="noreferrer">uTorrent</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCleaner" rel="noreferrer">CCleaner</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIRC" rel="noreferrer">mIRC</a>.</p>