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Re: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (with embedded Lua and SQLite)

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Post by sgammon » Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 10:57 PM UTC

ihateolives wrote: post #8

bomewish wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some examples of deployment in the wild would have helped?

Yep, for some reason my imagination is just not kicking in here. What can I do with embedded Lua in backend? I'm not familiar with Lua at all so I have no idea.

Well, couldn't the same question be asked about using Python or Ruby within a server? It's scriptable, easier and faster to iterate with. Dynamic. You can execute Lua scripts in Redis. LuaJIT and other implementations can be incredibly fast and pretty fun to code in.

Re: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (with embedded Lua and SQLite)

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Post by rlawson » Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:05 PM UTC

ihateolives wrote: post #8

bomewish wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some examples of deployment in the wild would have helped?

Yep, for some reason my imagination is just not kicking in here. What can I do with embedded Lua in backend? I'm not familiar with Lua at all so I have no idea.

You can use the excellent fullmoon framework that takes care of a lot for you

https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

Then using lua is not much different than python/flask

Re: Redbean – Single-file distributable web server (with embedded Lua and SQLite)

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Post by rlawson » Sun, Oct 29, 2023, 11:12 PM UTC

rlawson wrote: post #12

ihateolives wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, for some reason my imagination is just not kicking in here. What can I do with embedded Lua in backend? I'm not familiar with Lua at all so I have no idea.

You can use the excellent fullmoon framework that takes care of a lot for you https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon Then using lua is not much different than python/flask

Well except a lot faster at runtime