Ironic - Since Lua's speed is most heavily used in Yahoo! China, Taobao, Alibaba and programmers hired by Cloudflare to work with Lua worked in those companies. (http://agentzh.org/#AboutMe) The use of Lua - openresty with nginx - Nginx is from Russia, too.
"fastest scripting language in the east"
Might be slightly more appropriate.
But then again - Lua originated from Brazil and heavily used in game companies in the U.S. Not sure how much they use LuaJIT though.
This is a reference to the trope of quickdraw duels and "Fastest gun in the west" referring to the western United States in the "Wild West". Not an east/west of the world like you're thinking.
But then again - Lua originated from Brazil and heavily used in game companies in the U.S. Not sure how much they use LuaJIT though.