# Luvit

6 Hacker News commenters recommended Luvit and 0 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A Node-style runtime for Lua, recommended as a Lua counterpart to Node, Bun and Deno for async IO and sockets, and called a favorite stack by some.

## Why people recommend it

- Node-style async IO for Lua (2 comments): "for those who want a lua version of nodejs/bun/deno, try looking at" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035695)) "If you want async IO, sockets, etc, check out Luvit." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46369314))
- Enthusiastic personal favorite (2 comments): "my favorite stack which I never got to actually work with" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906026)) "got me excited many years ago" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46036509))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [LuaJIT](https://hackerapproved.com/p/luajit.md): 51 recommend
- [TurboLua](https://hackerapproved.com/p/turbolua.md): 5 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Luvit", https://hackerapproved.com/p/luvit/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).