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> http://dev.alt.textdrive.com/browser/HTTP/HTTP.lua

Wavecom puts Lua on its embedded wireless devices (from 256KB to 1MB RAM, with a pretty constrained OS underneath), and uses it among others for all their web server stuff. http://www.wavecom.com/openatlua. In a non-realtime embedded context, coroutines are a real blessing, giving you most of multithreading's advantages (arguably more, since getting race conditions right is much easier) for a fraction of the resources' cost.

About exceptions syntax with metalua, you might want to check this: http://metalua.blogspot.com/2008/01/simple-extension-with-catch.html

-- Fabien.