Apache to include a mod_lua by default in next stable release

This is very good news for Lua as a web development language. The avaialability of a high-quality deployment option for web applications will remove one of the primary obstacles to acceptance of Lua for web development. Lua’s small size could make it an appealing environment for use on small, cheap VPS systems from providers such as Dreamhost. Its performance should make it attractive for larger systems too.

With any luck I'll be able to backport it to 2.2 as well, once it is stable, itself. It would probably be backported as an external module though, as it was when we called it mod_wombat.

This could be huge...I mean, really huge, like so huge it puts some far-fetched project like: http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/ into a codeable context. If this module gets the care and tenderness it deserves I think it's safe to assume that it will forever change how we use HTTP and what we use it for. I mean think about it, given the advent of JavaScript on the front-end plus something like Lua on the back-end. . .you might as well say good-night to our current client-server model for the web as we know it. This is so big that calling it something like Web3.0 is a misnomer, something this big could render our operating-systems into browsers, our desktops into plugins/extensions, and our applications into remote-services...ok ok, maybe those last few somethings were a bit of a stretch, but it's exciting to see someone as big as Apache introduce a scrpiting module that has been responsible for something as successful as the gaming industry that this could be that back-end interface that JavaScript has been so patiently waiting waiting for ever since it almost miscarried out of the womb of Netscape. Plus, it's reassuring to know that C isn't going out of style any time soon. :P

Wow, awesome. Lua is much nicer than PHP.

I have a feeling that if Lua catches on, though, that it will become the same cut-n-paste quagmire that PHP did. If you are only using something because it is already installed, you are not going to bother with libraries. That makes me sad.

But, we will see how it goes.

Now we need Lua on Orbits. ;-)

Is something like WSGI compatible with Lua, or is there something equivalent that can be used?

will ruby and python get the same treatment? if not, why not?

edit: ty.