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BobbyJo on Sept 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Intercepting Zoom's encrypted data with BPF

Lua is the most common language I had never heard about before dealing with BPF. It gets embedded in a surprising array of technologies.

phs on Sept 10, 2020 [–]

That's most of what lua's purpose is: to be a reasonably pleasant and featureful language that is dead easy to embed in larger systems that want some kind of scripting or macros.

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