Sailor – A Lua MVC framework

monocasa 11 years ago |

Since Lua is Portuguese for "moon", is this a Sailor Moon reference?

etiene 11 years ago | |

Yes! Thanks for noticing! And the blog app example is called Tuxedo!

paracaidista 11 years ago | | |

I noticed those release names, too! Made my day.

etiene 11 years ago | | |

One is glad to be of service! :D

jdotjdot 11 years ago | |

This totally went over my head and I am so glad you pointed it out. I now want to use it just because of that

etiene 11 years ago | | |

Hahaha cool! Thanks, go ahead!

justincormack 11 years ago |

Nice to see a larger framework that works with ngx_lua/openresty.

etiene 11 years ago | |

Thanks! Integration with openresty was a contribution by Felipe Daragon! :D

statik_42 11 years ago |

This is very cool. I love Lua, though my experience with it is limited to the few weeks I spent playing around with it as a Source engine scripting language in Half-Life 2: Sandbox. Still, it was very fun to learn, and I think this is an interesting application outside of its usual game scripting territory that I'd love to try out sometime. Great work! Thanks for sharing.

kremlin 11 years ago |

Viewing this on Chrome on Android. Being built with bootstrap, it's a bit surprising that the responsiveness of the site is so poor. Screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/nnG3zgg.png

etiene 11 years ago | |

Sailor's website does not use the bootstrap feature. To be honest I just picked a random nice-looking open template. It has its issues but it's not that bad! XD I confess I gotta work on that. Thanks for pointing it out!

bratao 11 years ago |

Proud to see this kind of project coming from a Brazilian university. Congratulations !

infinite8s 11 years ago | |

You do know that Lua was developed at a Brazilian university (the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)?

etiene 11 years ago | |

Thanks! As an undergrad, I'm specially happy!

tete 11 years ago |

There are a lot of really nice Lua frameworks recently. Lapis is really cool too:

http://leafo.net/lapis/

etiene 11 years ago | |

Yes! Orbit is very cool too even though it's not updated often. I'm really glad to see such a variety of projects in Lua community!

tete 11 years ago | | |

There seems to be a trend. It's really nice, because just about everything has a Lua interface these days and you can make nice applications in it. Like Lua works embedded in databases like Redis or web servers like nginx or operating system kernels, like NetBSD. And it's really simple to learn and really performant, especially with LuaJIT.

I always feel like it is showing off with simplicity, while still being a "normal" language the majority of people easily can get into quickly. I always like the give the example of my brother finishing games with love2d (basically just wrapping SDL, especially back then) in a matter of days, without prior programming knowledge (unless you call basic HTML and CSS programming, no JS).

Out of curiosity: How did you start out with Lua?

etiene 11 years ago | | |

I study at PUC-Rio where it was created. So I thought it was a matter of honor to try to learn it! xD Sailor was my first experience with it.

vince_refiti 11 years ago |

I am surprised you are not using OpenResty, like Lapis.

etiene 11 years ago | |

We do have OpenResty support. But sailor doesn't work just with it. It also works on Apache, Xavante (a lua written server) and Mongoose (a very lightweight server)

vince_refiti 11 years ago | | |

Good. I missed reading it when I posted. Thanks for the info!