[bomewish]

Some examples of deployment in the wild would have helped?

[ihateolives]

Yep, for some reason my imagination is just not kicking in here. What can I do with embedded Lua in backend? I'm not familiar with Lua at all so I have no idea.

[sgammon]

Well, couldn't the same question be asked about using Python or Ruby within a server? It's scriptable, easier and faster to iterate with. Dynamic. You can execute Lua scripts in Redis. LuaJIT and other implementations can be incredibly fast and pretty fun to code in.

[rlawson]

You can use the excellent fullmoon framework that takes care of a lot for you

https://github.com/pkulchenko/fullmoon

Then using lua is not much different than python/flask

[rlawson]

Well except a lot faster at runtime