Lua OS - An operating system around Lua, developed by a former Google employee

Re:Lua OS - An operating system around Lua, developed by a f... by sharkbot on Saturday April 21, 2012 @01:05PM (#3872249)

I'm a big fan of Lua, and a big fan of correctness via simplicity, but I worry the author is a little too confident for his own good. Take his sample webserver: http://lua4everything.dyndns.org/ and the accompanying blog post: http://blog.luaos.net/

That particular example is simple and doesn't permit much room for nefarious actions, but as soon as he adds support for a wider selection of files, POST (and other verbs), caching, templating, authentication and access control, etc, the code will grow in complexity and the advantages of Lua will recede.

For instance, remove the line "isin(path, sources)" and there is a arbitrary file read. White lists are more secure, but they don't scale.

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Re:Lua OS - An operating system around Lua, developed by a f... by 32362 on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:16PM (#3872466)

[Whilst I believe the project itself should in general stand based on its own merits, in the spirit of openness...]

Also by the same author:

- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/85887/

- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/85891/

- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/85896/

- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/85886/ (I don't want it to seem like I'm cherry-picking stuff out of context, thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/85850/ )

- http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.lua.general/85938/

After this spectacle what interest I had in the project when it was first announced waned. Community around an open-source project is very important, and this is not how to build it. I'd rather see the project forked than deal with someone like this.

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Re:Lua OS - An operating system around Lua, developed by a f... by ushi on Saturday April 21, 2012 @02:37PM (#3872552)

omg, its super painful to read this list. whats wrong with these people?

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Re:Lua OS - An operating system around Lua, developed by a f... by monzee on Sunday April 22, 2012 @04:37AM (#3874361)

Is this guy really a former Google employee? Those posts sound like they were written by an elementary school kid.

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