Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown

Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown by pygy_ on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:11AM (#1786743)

Indeed, C(++) interop is easy. The API is also described in the PiL Book linked above.

Furthermore, the VM binary weights 200k. It is extremely portable (it uses the common subset of C89 and C++), and its code is a pleasure to hack.

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Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown by notthinking on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:56AM (#1786805)

Just had a quick skim over some of that chapter, and it is very compelling, especially when I see how well its worked for AwesomeWM (my desktop environment of choice) and how many commercial games are using it for user scripting [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lua-scripted_video_gam...

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