title: Node.js for lua?
body: <p>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.</p>
  
  <p>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!</p>
  
  <p>I imagine writing my server in such an environment (very fast and responsive, very low memory usage, very expressive) will improve my project immensly.</p>
  
  <p>Being new to lua, I'm just not sure if such a thing exists.  I'll appreciate any pointers.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>