[SSSD] Embedding Lua into SSSD
Nikolai Kondrashov
Nikolai.Kondrashov at redhat.com
Tue Aug 25 16:04:55 UTC 2015
On 08/25/2015 04:14 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> On 08/24/2015 11:54 AM, Pavel Březina wrote:
>> On 08/21/2015 07:01 PM, Nikolai Kondrashov wrote:
>>> I might be in a strange and careless mood today, but here is something I
>>> wanted to suggest since the time I saw the amount of logic that goes into
>>> SSSD and is implemented in C.
>>>
>>> What if we implement some of the complicated logic inside SSSD in Lua [1]?
>>
>> can you tell us what features of Lua do you like and might help simplify
>> SSSD? I don't know the language, just fast scrolled over the manual and seen
>> few examples. It seems to be similar to javascript.
>
> Most of all, I like its simplicity, then flexibility. And then how easy it is
> to embed. The latter comes from simplicity, first of all.
>
> I listed the features I think will help us in the other message in this
> thread, but here they are again and then some:
>
> * exception handling
> (somewhat rudimentary, but workable)
> * automatic memory management
> (incremental mark-and-sweep with good controls, customizable allocator)
> * easier data massaging
> (string operations, built-in (limited) regexes, etc.)
> * brevity
> (implicit dynamic typing, syntax sugar)
> * OOP support
> (there are several libraries to choose from)
>
> I don't know enough JavaScript to really compare, but to me knowing that it
> has two pairs of equality operators [1] is quite off-putting.
>
> There is, however, a seemingly good comparison, which should give the general
> idea:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/a/1022683/1161045
Some things about that comparison:
* Lua supports bitwise operators now.
* There are no typeof and instanceof operators, but functions doing that
are usually implemented in OOP libraries
* It doesn't mention that Lua uses 1-based array indices by default [1].
It feels awkward at first, but you can get used to it.
Nick
[1] A long discussion on the official wiki :)
http://lua-users.org/wiki/CountingFromOne
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