mercury

> The interesting thing about the Lua community is that very few people use Lua as their primary day-in-day-out language, which leads to a distinct lack of fanboyism. I think that's in part why so few libraries exist. Yes. The fact that LuaRocks is close to its 300th library illustrates that :) I am one of the few people who use Lua as their main language, but I still turn to something else for things like Web development (Python + Flask). Maybe this will change with the OpenResty + Lapis stack [1], which is IMO the most interesting thing in Lua Web development since Mercury [2]. [1] http://leafo.net/lapis/ [2] https://github.com/nrk/mercury Lua actually has lot of libraries dedicated to interoperability with other languages in a system (protobuf, ZeroMQ, ...), which makes it usable as part of a SOA, so you can write your web frontends in

re: makes a killer web framework There have been two Ruby web framework ported to Lua: * Orbit (http://orbit.luaforge.net/) - Camping port * Mercury (http://github.com/nrk/mercury) - Sinatra port

That's something I've also been wondering lately, since the Kepler and Orbit projects haven't seen activity for ages (at least according to their webpages). I found this Sinatra clone for Lua called Mercury (http://github.com/nrk/mercury), but it lacks documentation and does not seem to be very mature at the moment.