On 6/15/2011 6:09 PM, Akins, Brian 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.
E.g. much of mod_perl's flexibility without the overhead of a perl interpreter instance.
