Web Development in Lua

Is it possible or advisable? It seems to me that all of the languages traditionally used for server side scripting (Python, PHP, Perl) are fucking abominations. According to Google, there is a mod_lua out there.

>>39
Transitive property for the whoops, thought I was a twelve year-old for a second!

>>20
this is a total myth. it's so easy to bind to any C library you need that library support is only a *consideration* if you absolutely -cannot- write C to save your life.

seriously, you can import all the libraries you need in <200 lines of C.

>>40
Look at it that way. Real VMs, like VMWare or VirtualBox, they only run on x86 architecture. They use your processor to execute code of your DOS programs. You can't run DOS in VirtualBox on ARM processor.

DosBox, on the other hand, works on all architectures, because it is an interpreter. It uses processor to emulate another processor, not to run programs. That's why its functionality is so limited.

>>42
I'm sure he wasn't even talking about C libraries. Lua has no concept of modules; if you want to add functionality of some lua program into another, you have include whole file, there's no other way. This is the problem with lua libraries, absence of them.

>>44
That's why you learn to write proper Lua, then you won't have this problemdon't bother trying to write anything too complex in a language intended for cheap game scripting.

Lua on Laughter

I am interested in web scripting with Lua.

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