AppFactor vs. JavaScript vs. Lua vs. Numecent Cloudpager Comparison Chart

AppFactor significantly reduces the cost and labor that would otherwise be required for a manual application modernization project. Post modernization, our platform empowers teams to deploy, operate, and maintain existing applications more efficiently and cost-effectively, Increase engineering velocity, level-up your business-critical applications, streamline innovation, and gain a competitive edge. Quickly transform legacy physical and virtual server-based apps into cloud-native form to kickstart iterative modernization of architecture, deployment, and improvements. Intelligently persist runtime and process-to-process relationships from multiple server hosts into cloud-native architectures. Accelerate and induct legacy apps into CI/CD pipelines. Remove older physical and virtual infrastructure along with having to maintain operating systems. Simplify cloud migration by modernizing as you go to more mature cloud services such as Kubernetes platforms or PaaS.

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode with a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping. Lua has a deserved reputation for performance. To claim to be "as fast as Lua" is an aspiration of other scripting languages. Several benchmarks show Lua as the fastest language in the realm of interpreted scripting languages. Lua is fast not only in fine-tuned benchmark programs, but in real life too. Substantial fractions of large applications have been written in Lua.