Re: Announcing moonslice luv*, and lhttp_parser

[Tim Caswell <tim@...>]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 7:01 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky <znmeb@znmeb.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Tim Caswell <tim@creationix.com> wrote:
>> After starting the luvit project over a year ago, I've learned a lot
>> about lua and the ecosystem.  Recently I've decided that cloning the
>> node.js environment doesn't have as much value as I initially
>> believed.
>
> Sorry to hear that, although I must say it's not a surprise. Money and
> code both talk and money is turning into Node.js code at an impressive
> rate. ;-)
>
> [snip]
>
>> LUV
>>
>> Luv is minimal binding to libuv for lua.  Nothing more.  It exposes
>> libuv as a bunch of functions that work on uv_handle_t instances.  It
>> will be callback based since libuv is callback based.  Other
>> interfaces can easily be built on top.  Once done, I intend to pull
>> this back into luvit itself.  I'm hoping other projects can use it as
>> well.  It's the most minimal abstraction for libuv possible and many
>> platforms/frameworks can be built on top of it.
>
> I'm not by any means an expert on event libraries, but it seems like a
> wheel that keeps getting re-invented and most of said re-inventions
> are in C/C++. Redis have their own, Luv and Node.js and Luvit have
> libuv, Ruby has Event Machine and I think Perl has AnyEvent and half a
> dozen others plus Coro for coroutines.
>
> I've read the Redis justification for writing their own instead of
> using an existing one but I'm not sure I buy it unless there are
> *compelling* performance gains. By compelling I mean at least a
> "hemibel" - three times as fast!
>
> [snip]
>
> By the way, is there any hope of Lua support in Cloud9 IDE? I'll be
> danged if I'm going to install Eclipse just to get a Lua IDE; that way
> lies insanity even on my 8 GB laptop. I'll simply have to limit Lua
> coding to things that can be done in Vim. ;-)

BTW, I do all my lua and C coding in cloud9.  You can get a readonly
view of my workspace at https://c9.io/creationix/moonslice-luv.  And
now that the free accounts have terminal, you're able to build lua,
luajit, luvit, luv, and lhttp_parser all inside the free gear.  (which
I did in this workspace).  Just make sure to install everything to the
$HOME prefix.

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