will ruby and python get the same treatment? if not, why not? edit: ty.

compay · on Jan 27, 2009

Lua is easy to add "by default" because its interpreter is tiny and was designed for embedding. The others are too big.

brianm · on Jan 28, 2009

Lua has the nice trait of being tiny, fast, and playing correctly with all the various threading/process models apache supports. Ruby and Python don't.

Mod_wombat (now mod_lua) came into being out of frustration trying to embed ruby, and then python, in apache with the worker or event mpms (multi-threaded).