Re: CGILua

[Petite Abeille <petite_abeille@...>]

On May 16, 2008, at 2:22 PM, Pete Kay wrote:

> I am evaluating CGILua for a new web application.  There are very few
> discussion that compares CGILua with PHP.  Would CGILua be more  
> superior in
> terms of performance and memory utilization?

Perhaps, but that will mostly depend on what you application does...  
implementation language consideration being rather secondary all  
things being equal...

> What is the pros and cons of using CGILua instead of PHP?

Not familiar with the ins and outs of PHP, but (CGI)Lua is a rather  
'do-it-yourself' kind of environment, while PHP might gather to every  
whimsical functionality one can dream of.

In other words, PHP might provide quite a few libraries out-of-the- 
box, that you need them or not, while with Lua you will need to  
assemble such libraries by yourself.

> Thank you very much in advance for your inputs.

For illustration purpose, here are two examples of full fledge web  
applications developed in Lua.

Sputnik, an extensible wiki, is based on the Kepler stack:

http://sputnik.freewisdom.org/
http://www.keplerproject.org/

Nanoki, a simple wiki, uses its own green field web stack  
implementation:

http://svr225.stepx.com:3388/nanoki
http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP

Cheers,

PA.