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
You might want to take a look at Luvit or a gander at the Lua Github site. I think it takes the approach of implementing Node.js functionality right inside Lua. You write Lua code on the client side and on the server side. Here is a description of Luvit approach to doing Node.js functionality in Lua.