Luaetta is a suite which consists of an unique Lua application for the web and a Lua library which eases developing of web applications in Lua. Written in C++, this is similar to PHP but more secure, faster and a lot more flexible.

Project Start: August 2007
Project Status: in development

Currently there are two source bases, neither officially released but some people have it.

Luaetta

• FastCGI interface to talk to HTTP servers
• first interface for Lua script via onRequest() function
• complete access to HTTP request/response body and header in Lua scripts

Luaetta-ng

• a lot stuff rewritten
• focus on supporting new change in web development to AJAX and long-living requests
• using libevent
• own scheduler
• coco-patch for complete coroutine support
• scripts can wait some time, on events, messages, etc.
• own internal messaging to let LuaThreads, which process the requests, talk to each other
• improved configuration

Current lack of a lot that would one call web framework, just some URL handling. Stuff like theming, database access and a lot stuff is still evaluated.