Lua is a very fast and powerful scripting language that can be easily embeddable. It can be used to develop robust applications and has been shining in industries like game development, for example. Lua is also an excellent tool as a general purpose language. However, it's use in web development, despite its great potential and incredible benchmarks, needs to be more widespread. Having had experience as a web programmer, and aiming to learn more about this language, I started a marathon that produced Sailor 0.1, a web MVC framework completely written in Lua after only ten days. Once the quest was completed, the feedback was so interesting that I continued the development. Sailor keeps growing each day, also with the help of contributors. This talk presents the beginnings of Sailor framework, a comparison with other existing tools in Lua, the current stage of Sailor's development today, the official announcement of version 0.3 (Jupiter). This presentation also intends to start a debate on what we can do to spread the idea of using more Lua in web development.
