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		codewright on Nov 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Luvit – Asynchronous I/O for Lua We're using Node.js as an example of something good? Did we collectively forget everything known about concurrency once web apps got big or something? This is embarrassing. I should switch to embedded or something.

otterley on Nov 12, 2012 [–]

Agreed - the Lua community should really focus on coroutines instead, since it actually has them, unlike Javascript. Coroutines are way easier to debug than callbacks.

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