typedlua VS lua-nginx-module

it's based off MIR, does it have something to do with https://mlir.llvm.org/ ?

for typed lua, there is another effort https://github.com/teal-language/tl in addition to the mentioned typescript approach: https://github.com/andremm/typedlua

Gradual typing. This is what TypeScript is: you have some typed values and untyped values, and want to verify and possibly optimize the typed code while permitting the untyped code to compile. Besides JavaScript/TypeScript, you'll find gradual typing on pretty much any other popular untyped language including Python, Lua, and Racket. Mojo is also going to have gradual typing.

"small embeddable dynamic languages" are usually used to configure or program other larger compiled applications. This is bes understood by example:

https://create.roblox.com/docs/tutorials/scripting/basic-scr... - make a mini game in Roblox

https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module?tab=readme-ov-... - configure and extend NGINX

https://wezfurlong.org/wezterm/config/lua/general.html - make your terminal more useful (my personal config changes the tab color based on the process name - https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles/blob/master/wezterm/dot-c...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQBr9hwf0BY - configure your text editor

If your service is self-hosted, you can build the rate limit rules in Nginx using the OpenResty framework. Note that, if you are using OpenResty, you can use a shared dictionary and you don't necessarily need Redis. However, if you want to use redis though, then you need a redis client like the lua-resty-redis.

You may also wish to open a question on the OpenResty repo, as there are not many OpenResty folks that follow this subreddit.

/u/givmedat - Your best bet is to use njs module or the nginx lua module I think.

I drop logs at the first app LB using openresty's lua plugin for nginx. This goes into my data lake and we work on it from there. Does this work for everyone? No. Does it work for my F500 employer? Yes. Are there better ways to do this? Sorta.

# - https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module/

We want the client to read the YAML file regularly. For this, we can leverage the power of the Lua Nginx module. It's part of OpenResty, which Apache APISIX is built upon. The module offers additional APIs, and two of them are particularly useful:

Depending on how complicated your Python logic is, one option is to use nginx+Lua (https://github.com/openresty/lua-nginx-module). Another option is to extend Envoy (https://www.envoyproxy.io/docs/envoy/latest/extending/extending).