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

You can get node.js style non-blocking IO with lua-handlers.

It even has an async. HTTP Client, which makes it really easy to start parallel HTTP requests. See the test_http_client.lua file as a example of the HTTP client interface.