I'd probably recommend lua-http and cqueues because not only will it run on 5.3 it also has good concurrency abstractions (cqueues.promise is particularly helpful) and the http library has a good interface. I'd avoid luvit; it's not got enough packages or interop with the rest of lua and I find its coroutine based networking libraries (the coro-X set of packages) to be lacklustre.
Hello All,
At work, we are selecting a Lua environment to run on our embedded ARM 7 device. We have limited memory and we want to keep the footprint small, hence Lua in the first place. Our requirements include:
* Lua 5.3 preferred because of the need to work with INT64
* TCP-IP Sockets
* HTTP/S, HLS/TLS
* WebSockets
* DNS / mDNS
* REST Plumbing
* Nice async / concurrency behavior
* Integrates well with main loops
* Works on Windows a nice plus
* Capitalist friendly licensing
My current interest is in lua-http with cqueues, but we aren't sure about compatible REST frameworks and which one the cool kids are using. Any recommendations?
Luvit would be a great option, except that it only works with LuaJIT. We're wary of the daunting task of compiling LuaJIT on this platform and we will miss native 64Bit integers. Our team is familiar with Node.js, hence the appeal.
Other lightweight suggestions?
-- Andrew
