Node.js for lua?

Question

I\'ve been playing around with node.js (nodejs) for the past few day and it is fantastic. As far as I can tell, lua doesn\'t have a similar integration of libev and libio which

Answer 1

A recent corresponding project is Luvit "(Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce)".

From the announcement:

this is basically luajit2 + libuv (the event loop library behind nodejs). It compiles as a single executable just like nodejs and can run .lua files. What makes it different from the stock luajit distribution is it has several built-in modules added and some slightly different semantics.

Notice that we're not running as a CGI script to apache or anything like that. The lua script is the http server. You get your callback called every time an http request is made to the server.