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The naming is definitely unfortunate, as I was briefly excited for a lua VM written in rust.

Anyway, for those who want a lua version of nodejs/bun/deno, try looking at https://luvit.io/ (lua) or https://lune-org.github.io/docs/ (luau - AKA roblox lua).



If you want a Lua webserver, the way to go imo is Redbean.

https://redbean.dev/

Based on CosmopolitanC with incredible performance and single binary runs on any platform.

There is also MakoServer.

https://makoserver.net/

More for embedded but runs in anything and also very batteries included, like Redbean including SQLite and JSON for example.


Redbean is very fun. I built a mini Markdown-based CMS with it earlier this year: https://github.com/kevinfiol/beancms


I have used luvit and I can recommend. I used it for my Discord bot written in Lua.




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