On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Akins, Brian <brian.ak...@turner.com> wrote: > On 6/15/11 6:26 PM, "HyperHacker" <hyperhac...@gmail.com> wrote: > > = >> I'd been looking forward to mod_lua for a while now expecting it to >> work similarly to PHP (handle requests, send output without having to >> worry about how the httpd works). Is that not the case? > > Brian M. can correct me, but the original intent for mod_lua (nee > mod_wombat) was when you needed to get at the internals of Apache, but > didn't want to write a full on C module. Like needed nested if's for a > rewrite, a strange auth method, or whatever. It was not really meant to be > a competitor to php, ruby, python, etc. for application development.
My personal use cases for mod_lua are not content generation oriented, but you should be able to do content generation with it. I suspect that if you are doing "serious apps" then you will get more mileage from ruby, python, or perl just because there are a *lot* more libraries geared towards that already. All that said, when i started doing ruby, there were far fewer quality ruby libs than there are lua libs now :-) I'd like to support bucket brigades, but I do *not* know what the API should look like. Given good bucket support, filters then become straightforward. What I would want in the API: 1) It exposes the same abstractions as the C api, but in a Lua idiommatic manner. 2) That it interacts properly with C. -Brian -Brian > > -- > Brian Akins > > >
