Some questions about lua:
- What dev environment do u prefer? When I looked last time I didn't really see a dedicated IDE for lua, mostly just plugins for vim/emacs.
- Did you consider lua in nginx? (Or what are you thoughts on it).
- Did you consider moonscript? (Or what are you thoughts on it)
I chose https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua as the Lua engine because it is Golang-based, while the Nginx Lua VM is C, unless I'm mistaken. Using gopher-lua is just easier when I'm working in a Golang project. I only have to work in a single language and dev environment for all the backend work. Makes both development and testing easier.
Moonscript I might have heard of, but I have no experience with it. I did not consider it here, and I would rarely consider any niche scripting language for a solution I want others to use. It just introduces an unnecessary barrier to adoption.