Lua's historical niche has been as an extension language for C and C++ projects, not web development. It has the necessary infrastructure at the language level,

Lua's historical niche has been as an extension language for C and C++ projects, not web development. It has the necessary infrastructure at the language level, though. FWIW, I'm working on a lightweight, event-driven webserver and general server framework (like twisted or tornado). It will be released under a BSD-style license at the same time as my distributed filesystem (the project driving its development).