Lua on a web server (heroku)

[kikito]

This is not exactly LÖVE-related, but Lua-related.

There are some projects for running Lua in a web server, but they seem very limited and minor.

I was surprised this morning when I read that someone was able to run Lua in the heroku stack (which was initially ruby-only, but has extended to support other languages).

Here is the relevant link:

http://leafo.net/posts/lua_on_heroku.html

[coffee]

This is not exactly LÖVE-related, but Lua-related.

There are some projects for running Lua in a web server, but they seem very limited and minor.

I was surprised this morning when I read that someone was able to run Lua in the heroku stack (which was initially ruby-only, but has extended to support other languages).

Here is the relevant link:

http://leafo.net/posts/lua_on_heroku.html

Seems interesting. Didn't knew that web virtual code layer. Pity there isn't then a Lua app running for demo.

[leafo]

Here's a demo, moonscript compiler running on heroku: http://moonscript.herokuapp.com/

[kikito]

Oh! The moonscript guy and the lua in heroku guy are in reality the same person! Nice to meet you!

I'm not very interested in moonscript right now, but your post about Lua in Heroku has certainly picked my interest. Keep up the good work!

[vrld]

It's worth to mention that it is already (very) possible to use Lua on a web-server thanks to the Kepler Project. Their web-dev APIs range from relatively high level (Orbit) to low level (wsapi). There's even a Lua web-server called Xavante, which seems to be used by heroku. I run have a lighttpd server running Lua scripts using fastcgi and wsapi. Developing webapps in Lua is refreshing compared to PHP and Perl (never did anything with ruby or python though). If you can, you should try it.