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I agree with the caveat I didn't read anything similar to go's work stealing thread scheduling, useful for tasks with synchonized IO for example.

What appeals to me is the Lua integration. I'd love for a Lua application server to become widely available. The http servers out there now don't really fit the bill for (Xavante, Luvit for example).

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Yes, Lwan's thread scheduler is pretty simple, and can be borderline useless if a thread blocks. This 2014 blog post has more details; not much in that regard has changed since then: https://tia.mat.br/posts/2014/10/06/life_of_a_http_request.h...

What's wrong with openresty?

FYI "what wrong with X?" is not the same conversation as "Are you familiar with X? It has these great features ...". Great that you want to promotoe you're favorite tech, but there are more effective ways to do it.

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