FW: Lua awareness

["Chris Liles" <chris.liles@...>]

>>On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:09 PM, Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>> Of course, a more fundamental contribution was his adoption of Lua in 
>> the first place. Similarly, the adoption of Lua in LuaTeX, Wikipedia, 
>> WoW, Lightroom, and other projects are much more important than 
>> anything I can say on youtube. I think most presentations in the 
>> workshop were certainly much stronger arguments in favor of Lua than mine.

>On Tuesday, Dec 11, 2012, Pierre-Yves Gerardy added:
>100% agreed on that. The best way to improve the popularity of Lua is to play its main strength over other dynamic languages: its embeddability.

>You can add nginx (a HTTP server, already mentioned above) and Redis (a key/value DB that uses Lua for remote procedures) to your list.
>Both are very popular in the Web dev world.

>There's also a PostgreSQL plugin (PL/Lua), but, sadly, it hasn't been updated in years, and I don't know if it still works with the current version >(http://pllua.projects.pgfoundry.org/,
>http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PL_Matrix).

>Now, convincing people that they need an embedded scripting language is all about politics and influence...


You could also add CODEA (based on Lua) from Australia, which was used by a Brazilian programmer to write the first game developed on an iPad to be accepted in the App Store - you can't get much more trend-setting than that. 

http://news.yahoo.com/first-ipad-game-written-codea-ipad-hits-app-163300527.html


Chris Liles