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using lua is by far the best language to embed -- its why apache httpd is including mod_lua by default in 2.4, the next major version.
by pquerna 17y ago
using lua is by far the best language to embed -- its why apache httpd is including mod_lua by default in 2.4, the next major version.
- btipling 17y ago^^^ wrote mod_lua
- pquerna 17y agoActually Brian McCallister wrote much of the initial implementation, then called mod_wombat.. I just helped with various bits and kinda championed for including it in apache httpd. I've used lua for several other projects, and I love its embedability, compared to any of the other language, nothing remotely close to mainstream is anywhere near it. I'm most interested in seeing how LLVM based things go though, I imagine at somepoint you will be able to just embed LLVM JITs and run langauge X on them, though the API is gonna be complicated compared to Lua's.
- davidw 17y ago> nothing remotely close to mainstream is anywhere near it. Whether you like it or not, Tcl has been and remains an excellent language for this kind of thing.
- davidw 17y agoIsn't it included because the httpd committers happen to like Lua? I mean, it is a great language for that, but didn't it happen more because someone did the work, and did it with Lua, and was already a respected committer?