[asterisk-users] Why write your dialplan using Lua?

[José Pablo Méndez Soto]

Ok so its not a cosmetic thing only. I eases your administration. Do a
point for performance.

Now, what about my questions regarding extending the systems caps by
building things asterisk could not build by itself.  does it hold true?
On Jan 6, 2012 3:28 PM, "Steve Edwards" <asterisk.org at sedwards.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Danny Nicholas wrote:
>
>  Not to "purposely" open a flame war here, but is lua preferable to ael?
>> Aren't we better off just properly documenting our original conf files
>> since new changes often introduce "bad opportunities"?
>>
>
> One of the advantages of Lua is that it is embedded in other applications
> so you can 'leverage' the learning investment.
>
> Kind of like why you write your AGIs in Perl and I do in C. It's what we
> already know and we don't have to overcome 'yet another language' inertia.
>
> AEL was a big win for me over 'conf.' I'm hoping that Lua will be a big
> win over AEL.
>
> One thing does concern me...
>
> Here we are all discussing something we don't know anything about and
> nobody has chimed in with their experiences. If nobody is using it, how
> many 'arrows' will I get in my back when I blaze that trail?
>
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