Re: [naviserver-devel] moonshadow

[Andrew P. <at...@pi...>]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:05:56PM +0200, Vasiljevic Zoran wrote:

> There is this tiny sexy little thing on www.lua.org.
> Did you guys have any close(r) encounters?
> Should I invest some more time/effort in that direction?

I don't know, but it would be interesting!

Talk to Jean-Claude Wippler, he started using Lua for the core engine
of Vlerq earlier this year.  (And of course he is already a Tcl
expert, not to mention other languages.)

You might also want to check with Lua people to see what they're
currently doing for web and application servers.  I wonder if/how they
leverage coroutines in interesting ways.  Perhaps they'd be interested
in Naviserver with Lua, I don't know.

I've never used it for anything at all, but Lua is high on my list of
Interesting Programming Languages.

> It is really lightweight! I yet have to see whhat is missing
> and what needs to be done by ourselves (most probably IO
> will be missing I guess; RE's as well).

Lua reportedly has regular expression suppot, it's just not included
in core Lua, you have to load a third party extension module.  That
should be just fine (even superior) as a design, but Lua seems to be
crying out for a real Batteries Included distribution, with good
standard libraries, etc.

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