Lapis is fun! If you have a quick project idea to sketch out, it's very similar to Rails or Django - it just uses Lua. I don't personally like the 'moonscript'

Lapis is fun! If you have a quick project idea to sketch out, it's very similar to Rails or Django - it just uses Lua. I don't personally like the 'moonscript' language, but you can use traditional Lua instead. I think I remember it being easy to use luajit for performance, too. The documentation is sort of bare-bones though, so if you want to go off the rails with your design it can take some figuring out. Still, I would encourage people to give it a look; Lua is a fantastic language, Lapis is easy to set up and get started with, and it probably won't look unfamiliar if you've used a model/view/controller framework before.