Thanks to all for the feedback. I guess what I learnt from this conversation is that...  Use Lua for as far as possible, but for those exceptional scenarios when Lua falls short, it may make more sense to use a full fledged programming language like Java.<div>
<br></div><div>-JP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:00 AM, David Villasmil <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:david.villasmil.work@gmail.com" target="_blank">david.villasmil.work@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Well that depends on what you intent to accomplish, I guess.<div>The nicest thing about lua (in our case) is that it is embeded inside FS.</div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>David<br><div><br></div></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra">

<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Benjamin Henrion <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bh@udev.org" target="_blank">bh@udev.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


<div>On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:17 PM, David Villasmil<br>
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&gt; lua is by far the best approach. I really don&#39;t know about accessing web<br>
&gt; services, but for db it is perfect.<br>
&gt; I wrote a whole wholesale and calling card app with lua, so you can pretty<br>
&gt; much do anything wit it.<br>
<br>
</div>Number of reusable libraries is quite limited compared to other languages.<br>
<br>
Lua is well documented on FS wiki, other languages are just undocumented.<br>
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