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

Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown by mhd on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @09:49AM (#1787045)

A lot of that is true if you compare it against Erlang, which has a much different approach to concurrency – and has a steeper learning curve for a Python/Ruby+JavaScript web developer.

Learning Lua on the other hand? If that's not utterly trivial, I'd be worried.

The biggest downside Lua always had was that it's deeply rooted in the embedded category, where it's hard to come out from. Tcl is one the market for ages and still doesn't have a proper culture of libraries. At least Lua has its "rocks", maybe that will make it a worthwhile candidate for the non-embedded sector, too. It's a much nicer language than most of its rivals.

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Re:Node.js Versus LUA "Hello World" HTTP Server Showdown by silentbicycle on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @10:13AM (#1787124)

Lua developed a "culture of libraries" recently, and is catching up. Another part of the problem was that it didn't really have a proper module system until a couple years ago (partially due to the focus on embedding).

Besides LuaRocks, there's a collection on the Lua wiki (http://lua-users.org/wiki/LibrariesAndBindings), and the mailing list (http://www.lua.org/lua-l.html) is very active.

And yeah - if you know Javascript, you won't have trouble learning Lua. It's like Javascript with less gotchas and better performance.

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