Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin

Ouch, they used Lua 5.3

LuaJIT is at least an order of magnitude(10x) faster.



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.


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




Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: