levent is a lua concurrency networking library inspired by gevent.

Features include:

• Fast event loop based on libev.
• Simple and clean socket library
• Cooperative dns client by pure lua
• Similar api and components with gevent but with much more simpler implementation and better performance.

levent is licensed under MIT license.

Install lua 5.2 or newer.

Clone the repository.

Read test case and examples.

Post feedback and issues on the bug tracker,

need cmake 2.8 or newer.

cmake .
make

ways to build on windows, ref to blog

levent's api is clean, below is a code example for how to run a time limit work

lua <<SCRIPT
local levent  = require "levent.levent"
local timeout = require "levent.timeout"

function main()
    print("work 1:", timeout.run(0.2, levent.sleep, 0.1))
    print("work 2:", timeout.run(0.1, levent.sleep, 0.2))
end
levent.start(main)
SCRIPT

there are some tests and examples under tests and examples to illustrate how to use levent, you can run tests and examples from root folder of levent as below.

lua tests/test_socket.lua
lua examples/dns_mass_resolve.lua

coming soon~~

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2014 xjdrew