Re: few newbie questions -- luaforge/kepler website, REST, bindings etc.

[Chris Babcock <cbabcock@...>]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Jayanth Acharya <jayachar88@gmail.com> wrote:
> Q1. Unable to reach luaforge.net & keplerproject.org ! Any idea as to
> when they might come back, or they are not being maintained anymore
> (don't seem to be so though) ?

It's temporary.

> Q3. Anyone using Lua for some REST based webservice project ? Would
> appreciate pointers ? Is it well suited for this purpose ?

As a REST client - https://github.com/SPORE
As a dispatcher - http://keplerproject.github.com/copas/

Lua is a good tool. It's fast, light and easy to code. If you need a
big web framework or a lot of choices in libraries then there may be
better choices for you, but Lua 5.x has been stable for a long time.
That does a lot to leverage the talent of the community and, while
it's still a trifle naive to say "if there's a C library for then
there's a Lua library for it" it's not quite as naive as saying the
same thing about Python. ;)

Chris
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