In addition to what benjaminva said, luv uses callbacks (like Node.js), whereas this uses coroutines. So for example with luv you might do something like:

In addition to what benjaminva said, luv uses callbacks (like Node.js), whereas this uses coroutines. So for example with luv you might do something like: fs.readFile(filename, function(err, data) -- remember to check err end) With this binding the code would look like: local data = fs.readfile(filename) -- err was raised if one occurred With coroutines, you can use exceptions and for/while loops and they continue to work as you would expect.