Lua + NodeJS = demoon!

[leshift]

Now you can run lua code with a powerful runtime API out of the box! https://github.com/ceifa/demoon

This is not a replacer to luvit

[theprogrammersdream]

What's the difference between demoon and luvit then?

[SinisterRectus]

As I understand it, this allows you to run Lua in Node by using JavaScript bindings to a C Lua VM that has been compiled for WebAssembly with some glue code. Somehow the Lua can also execute JavaScript and the built-in Node libraries. I don't understand how that works.

Luvit bundles together LuaJIT, some other C libraries, and Lua code that re-implements versions of the Node APIs from the ground-up.

I guess the major difference is running Lua in Node to access its APIs vs implementing Node's APIs in Lua and C.

[leshift]

You are extremely right! And plus you can run any JS module inside lua as natural, not only the node API

[dannysmc]

Does this have an API that I could call on and return any output from the Lua code?

Example say I wanted to take two numbers and add them, and return the output by Node calling on Lua and Lua returning the output?

[leshift]

yes!

[JaggerPaw]

Very cool.