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Developing the Prosody XMPP server in Lua Matthew Wild ('MattJ') @FOSDEM 16 Introduction Why Prosody? Why Lua??? Performance of a scripting language Ecosystem Contributions The 'fun' parts Lua allowed us to: Define function

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Developing the Prosody XMPP server in Lua

Matthew Wild

('MattJ')

@FOSDEM 16

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Introduction

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Why Prosody?

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Why Lua???

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Performance of a “scripting language”

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Ecosystem

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Contributions

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The 'fun' parts

Lua allowed us to:

Define function metatables
Restrict the global environment
Create a telnet console
Static analysis (using lua-inspect and luacheck)

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Our code

Sections:

core/
net/
plugins/
util/

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LuaJIT

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The future

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