Write programs that seamlessly run as a distributed system over an entire data center or region. All without a single line of RPC code. Acton automatically persists the state of your application (orthogonal persistence) to a built-in distributed backend. No need to use a database or message broker ever again. 0 lines of persistence code. Built-in redundancy; Acton's transactional, high-performance distributed RTS can seamlessly resume application state after hardware failures. ...
A dynamic language for system programming (LuaJIT fork)
RaptorJIT is a Lua implementation suitable for high-performance low-level system programming. If you want to use a simple dynamic language to write a network stack; a hypervisor; a unikernel; a database; etc, then you have come to the right place.