Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by gal_anonym on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:36AM (#38499789)

I wish Lua Server Pages (LSP) were more widely adopted. It's similar to PHP, but utilizes Lua instead.

I dream of a CMS akin to WordPress, but developed in LSP.

Lua is lean, with minimal syntactic sugar, and it feels like a 'complete' language. Therefore, we don't anticipate any additional bloat in the future.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by simpleandnice on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:50AM (#38499900)

Lua in OpenResty is one of my favorite ways to ingest events. I publish them into Redis and then have some Python workers subscribed to process them.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by aredirect on Saturday December 02, 2023 @02:00PM (#38501009)

I had experience with OpenResty, I was so proud to kill it in one of the projects, I didn't know Lua/MoonScript good enough, tooling and debugging wasn't that great. While the idea is nice, everything around it was too much for me.

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Re:Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish peo... by interfixus on Saturday December 02, 2023 @11:53PM (#38504933)

For an alternative take developed in a different galaxy, have a look at redbean, https://redbean.dev/

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