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This could be huge...I mean, really huge, like so huge it puts some far-fetched project like: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/p/na
by mlLK 18y ago
This could be huge...I mean, really huge, like so huge it puts some far-fetched project like: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ into a codeable context. If this module gets the care and tenderness it deserves I think it's safe to assume that it will forever change how we use HTTP and what we use it for. I mean think about it, given the advent of JavaScript on the front-end plus something like Lua on the back-end. . .you might as well say good-night to our current client-server model for the web as we know it. This is so big that calling it something like Web3.0 is a misnomer, something this big could render our operating-systems into browsers, our desktops into plugins/extensions, and our applications into remote-services...ok ok, maybe those last few somethings were a bit of a stretch, but it's exciting to see someone as big as Apache introduce a scrpiting module that has been responsible for something as successful as the gaming industry that this could be that back-end interface that JavaScript has been so patiently waiting waiting for ever since it almost miscarried out of the womb of Netscape. Plus, it's reassuring to know that C isn't going out of style any time soon. :P
- enneff 18y ago> responsible for something as successful as the gaming industry Eh? Lua isn't responsible for the gaming industry. Sure, it's widely used in the gaming industry, but it was a huge industry well before then.
- randallsquared 18y agoI fear you're in for a letdown.
- tlrobinson 18y agoWhoa. I'm not sure where your enthusiasm is coming from. It's nice to have simple support for another language in Apache, but I don't see how this changes much in the big picture. Lua may be nice (so I've heard, I've never actually used it) but it's not orders of magnitude better than Python, Ruby, or even PHP. You can't run Lua in the vast majority of browsers. If you want a unified language on server and client, your best bet is probably JavaScript. <shamelessplug>I'm currently working on making the state of server side JavaScript a little better with Jack, which is like Rack/WSGI for JavaScript: http://jackjs.org http://jackjs.org </shamelessplug>