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 let's one avoid almost any blocking calls and interact with the network and the filesystem in an asynchronous manner.

I'm slowly porting my java implementation to nodejs, but I'm shocked that luajit is much faster than v8 JavaScript AND uses far less memory!

I imagine writing my server in such an environment (very fast and responsive, very low memory usage, very expressive) will improve my project immensly.

Being new to lua, I'm just not sure if such a thing exists. I'll appreciate any pointers.

Thanks