Scripts in applications: how and why to let users write code?
summary
Covers enabling users to write and run scripts inside applications, with examples like nginx plugins in Lua and Traefik plugins in Go. Explains why embedded scripting is useful for product extensibility and discusses approaches to safely integrate user-written code into high-load systems.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:48Why let users write code
- 7:27Quick start: libraries
- 10:20When to write your own
- 14:34Creating a DSL: School Language
- 21:27Lexical analysis and tokens
- 24:37Parser generation with Yacc
- 31:07Executing AST
- 34:01Summary
- 36:13Q&A
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