ElhamAryanpur

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by ElhamAryanpur 11mo ago
I am stating it can be, and already is, used for other tasks, not just web servers. Although the server and networking cases were originally what it was built for and the plans were stay there. Not "any" Rust library, the idea is
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by 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,
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by ElhamAryanpur 11mo ago
I have created an issue https://github.com/ArkForgeLabs/Astra/issues/121 to track all the arguments said here. Let me know if theres anything else I should look into. Thank you all for your feedback.
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by ElhamAryanpur 11mo ago
You are correct on this, I should have been more clear about the description. When I wrote the description I was in the headspace of BunJS and Deno. I will make note of this and write a better README description.
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by ElhamAryanpur 11mo ago
It isn't a replacement for the LuaJIT. Rather a wrapper over it with Rust libraries being available for use. Batteries included essentially.
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by ElhamAryanpur 11mo ago
hahaha it really is. Astro is another project that it also clashes with. When I was naming it, I was thinking of Warhammer's Astra Millitarum. But I forgot that it is a very popular name in general... my bad
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by ElhamAryanpur 11mo ago
Oh I missed that, thank you! Will open an issue for this
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by ElhamAryanpur 11mo ago
Author of Astra here, loved seeing all the responses here. It wasn't planned to be anything beyond internal usage, but you are correct that I should have been more clear on the description and naming. In any case, it is far from produc