The codebase anyone can edit
Channel: Linux.conf.au 2014 -- Perth, Australia
Date: 17/01/2014

Presenter(s): Tim Starling
URL: https://lca2014.linux.org.au/schedule/30103/view_talk

Wikipedia and other Wikimedia websites now allow untrusted users to supply Lua scripts which generate markup on the server side. The scripts can be edited like a wiki page.  This talk will discuss the motivations, implementation challenges and results of almost 12 months of Lua deployment. I will try to explain (perhaps not to everyone's satisfaction) why we didn't use JavaScript, or Guile, or Tcl.


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