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Not sure what this is. The homepage shows making an API in Lua. So is a web framework? In any case, a bad description term-wise. Being referred to as runtime m

Not sure what this is. The homepage shows making an API in Lua. So is a web framework? In any case, a bad description term-wise. Being referred to as runtime made sense for Node & JS, since JS was until Node mostly confined to web browsers with Node setting it free giving native OS access, an event loop, and even a module system. Lua, Python, etc are already shipping as their own self-contained runtime. So calling a Lua, Python, etc wrapper in X as runtime written in X makes no sense.

benwilber0 11mo ago
The "runtime" word is very confusing in this case. It's a web application server written in Rust (Axum/Tokio), that has hooks into Lua bindings (mlua) so that application behaviors can be implemented in Lua.
ElhamAryanpur 11mo ago
While I agree it is not in the technical terms a runtime, the inspiration for it was from BunJS and Deno and such. Similar projects in the Lua space also name themselves as runtime, so I wrote runtime as well. It is not exclusively for web, although it started as that. Nowadays Astra has libraries for many general things, and are used in a wide range of projects, from scripting, CI/CD, API servers, and more. Lua does ship a runtime, although it is incredibly limited in standard library, and lacks a lot of features that other languages ship out of the box. I could have either made a library to be used with each Lua VM or package everything into a single binary which was what we needed for our use case anyways, and gave a lot of control for us as well. In any case, I agree that I should have been more clear in the description. It has not been updated since a while and the project moves very fast.