Lua has the nice trait of being tiny, fast, and playing correctly with all the various threading/process models apache supports. Ruby and Python don't. Mod_wom

Lua has the nice trait of being tiny, fast, and playing correctly with all the various threading/process models apache supports. Ruby and Python don't. Mod_wombat (now mod_lua) came into being out of frustration trying to embed ruby, and then python, in apache with the worker or event mpms (multi-threaded).