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		albertzeyer on May 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ZeroBrane Lua IDE v1.00 released What's the state about https://luvit.io/ ? Or are there other similar projects? I think Nodejs gave JS a big popularity boost.

polymeris on May 13, 2015 [–]

> Or are there other similar projects?

There are at least half a dozen somewhat related projects: nginx_lua, tir2, luajit.io, luanode, tarantool, lusty, plus a bunch of libuv bindings.

And yeah, a single lua 'killer app' could do a lot for the language's popularity (elua comes close, but is a bit niche).

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