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Some of you guys haven't used luarocks and it shows (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] scrion@lemmy.world 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, Lua is a pretty "interesting" choice for that application, but don't blame shitty coding practices and inexperienced coders on the language.

The gigantic loop could have been cleaned up with a table, registering handlers for the individual cases.

Lua is probably not the best choice for a web service, but it definitely has its applications.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Openresty and lapis are great for web services.

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

There's a Lua module for Nginx, and in particular OpenResty bundles those two. Lua is snappy as hell, especially in the LuaJIT variant, and uses very little memory — so when it's paired with Nginx, one could probably run a performant web app on a toaster.