Re: State of Lua web dev with LuaJIT

[Lloyd Dube <zebra05@...>]

Thank you for your comprehensive responses, everyone :)

Is it safe to conclude that I can rely on OpenResty and LuaJIT (Lua
ver 5.1)as a platform to build and scale online services, with a
reasonable guarantee of future stability?

I've also looked at Go as an alternative, although I feel like for a
small team (just me, for now) Lua could yield higher productivity/
speed of development.


Kind regards,
~ Lloyd

On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 11:52 AM Robert Burke <sharpobject@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Openresty is core to the business of Cloudflare, Kong, and itch.io. Lapis is core to the business of itch.io. In my view, the reason there is not much activity adding new features to these projects is because they work quite well today.
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2020, 08:04 Lloyd Dube <zebra05@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I'm researching Lua web development options using LuaJIT and OpenResty
>> - or something that scalable.
>>
>> Most web frameworks seem to have hit EOL. Lapis seems to have
>> activity, but is it the only currently mature and active Lua web
>> framework?
>>
>> What is the prognosis for LuaJIT? Is there current development or is
>> there risk of abandonment? I'm not looking for flames, just doing my
>> due diligence before committing to anything.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> ~ Lloyd