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		rurounijones on Sept 24, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Official Go support Out of curiosity: Where would this be used? The only places I ever hear the word "lua" being used are with "embedded in a game as a scripting language". Is this the case here? Does lua have a lot of use elsewhere?

jrobn on Sept 24, 2014 [–]

Lua is compiled into OpenResty (NGINX). There is also a nice webframework called Lapis thats built on top of openresty and lua.

rurounijones on Sept 25, 2014 | [–]

Thank you for the information!

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