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Actually, on the developers page you linked it also lists JS, Lua, Go and Python as languages for GWAN handlers. I assume that means that those languages are supported via separate processes that are called out by the GWAN process since the page breaks those languages out separately from 'natively' supported C/C++/Obj-C, D and Java.

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I wrote the Lua, Go, and Python examples handlers.

JavaScript, Lua, and Python can be linked directly with the server for performance you would not get via separate processes.

I had more difficulty with Go, which you can read about on the forum.[1]

They all work, but are just proofs of concept at the moment. G-WAN makes it easy to link with any C library, so it is not hard to use languages that expose a C API such as those listed. It is just a matter of writing a more complete handler.

[1]http://forum.gwan.com/index.php?p=/discussion/463/writing-g-...

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