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Link to the project? I always like to see examples.

Blogging about your experience using it would probably get you some decent traffic, too.

I suspect the project he's referring to is our monitoring agent: https://github.com/racker/virgo

We're working on splitting this out into a reusable platform for writing lightweight host-based agents. Luvit works out fairly well for this - our monitoring agent runs in around 5mb resident memory, works on Windows (although we haven't released that yet) and is relatively easy to code on.

Shameless plug: if this sort of stuff interests you, hit me up, my email is in my profile.

I was referring to the "personal project" matt_m mentioned, but I'll take a closer look at this too.

Looks interesting. If I may ask, what inspired using luvit for this project in the first place?

We use Node.js on our backend, were involved in some of the work that led to libuv being split out from node core, and were already planning to use Lua based on our experience with the Cloudkick agent. All told, when we saw what Tim was doing with luvit it seemed like a natural fit.

Thanks. If lua and node are already part of your workflow, it makes sense to build on that. Looks like a lot of fun!

I haven't released it yet, maybe I'll do a Show HN in the future!

That would be cool. Please do!

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