Ouch, they used Lua 5.3 LuaJIT is at least an order of magnitude(10x) faster.

leggomylibro · on Sept 15, 2017

To the point where a lot of popular libraries (like Love2D) use LuaJIT by default. IIRC, Lapis (Lua-based web framework) can be easily configured for it as well.

I'd be interested in seeing how it fared; Lua really is a nice language.

etiene · on Sept 15, 2017

Lapis afaik also uses LuaJIT by default because it's built for openresty which does use LuaJIT