[rcarmo]

Mine’s in Python. I took that route when it was a relatively obscure thing and PHP was gaining ground over CGI in Apache (at the time having a Python web server was downright weird) and stuck with it for a long time. These days it’s a purely static site generator and a bit too funky to release (there’s a variant over on https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy) but I really enjoyed maintaining it while it was a small, batteries included environment.

I considered switching to Lua (actually Fennel) but luarocks can be fiddly to use across platforms (I now run everything on ARM servers) and that pretty much was the end of that. So I’m curious as to how maintainable a Lua back-end is over time.

[shakna]

Having run Lua on a GameBoy Advance, not that fiddly. At worst, compile it all yourself.

[rcarmo]

Targeting a specific platform is easy. Making sure your luarocks builds work across different Linux distros and architectures, not so much...

[shakna]

Absolutely agree.

But... For dev work on my own server? I am targeting a specific platform.

[rcarmo]

Yes, but if you develop on one arch/distro and deploy in another...