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We use Lua internally at Google Interesting! Anyone know details?

• yannis 17y ago
  Just a guess google power meter? http://www.google.org/powermeter/index.html http://www.google.org/powermeter/index.html
• whyenot 17y ago
  Joshua Haberman gives some details here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/62321 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/62321 Our Lua usage isn't too widespread at the moment; it's really one infrastructure project in particular that uses Lua to allow user-defined functions to run within a tightly controlled container. Lua was the best choice, because of its low overhead, fast execution, and the ability to set limits on execution time. Unfortunately I cannot be more specific, since the project is not public.
  • haberman 17y ago
    Man, you only have to say something once and then the Internet replicates it for you. :)
    • pyre 17y ago
      Well, if there is someone motivated enough to search for it.
      • blasdel 17y ago
        and a company with a mandate to publicly index everything...
        • chancho 17y ago
          ...well, almost everything.
  • teamonkey 17y ago
    Interesting to read this. I thought Google only used C and JVM-based languages as a company policy. Perhaps that's still the case except for this one example?