During the year 2008, the awesome window manager jumped in and picked a programming language to allow its users to extend their configuration beyond the limit of the possible. History shows that Lua was picked and Guile completely ignored. Fast forward 7 years later: awesome is still used by tens of thousands of geeks around the globe who write Lua every day. This talk is going to relate how awesome ended up with Lua, how wonderful and terrible it was, and how and why Guile was discarded.