There's also the http://prosody.im/ http://prosody.im/ XMPP server that's written in Lua, and it's very successful there. The other major XMPP server implementa

There's also the http://prosody.im/ http://prosody.im/ XMPP server that's written in Lua, and it's very successful there. The other major XMPP server implementation is in Erlang and they are equally praised, so that should tell something about Lua's versatility.