Luvit and Lua Bindings for libuv (Changelog Interviews #80)

Adam recently married the lovely Heather.

Tim Caswell is a long time friend of the show, creator of the How to Node blog.

Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language.

Luvit = Lua + libUV + jIT = pure awesomesauce.

LuaJIT’s FFI library allows calling external C functions and using C data structures from pure Lua code.

Luvit can take advantage of most Node libraries as long as they use non-blocking IO.

Rackspace is using Luvit in production already, but without HTTP.

Tim likes the callback style of coding that V8 promotes.

Wynn asks where Node.js is on the Gartner hype cycle.

Luvmonkey is a port of libuv bindings for SpiderMonkey.

Tim fails to see the use case for AMD.

Tim worked with Jeremy Ashkenas on CoffeeScript while at Document Cloud.

Candor is a language inspired by javascript, but with less features and, therefore, less complexity. So no semicolons, no exceptions and simplified anonymous function syntax (dart-like).

Tim has played with Go but likes Rust better.

Tim is now working at Cloud9 and their cloud-based IDE.

Surely Tim isn’t “the only JavaScript developer within a hundred miles of” Red Lick, TX.

Nodebits is another Node.js blog.

Bert Belder and Ben Noordhuis are the “libuv guys” at Cloud9.

Boot2Gecko is “an early-stage project to expose all device capabilities such that infrastructure like phone dialers can be built with Web APIs.”