The naming is definitely unfortunate, as I was briefly excited for a lua VM written in rust.

Anyway, for those who want a lua version of nodejs/bun/deno, try looking at https://luvit.io/ (lua) or https://lune-org.github.io/docs/ (luau - AKA roblox lua).

If you want a Lua webserver, the way to go imo is Redbean.

https://redbean.dev/

Based on CosmopolitanC with incredible performance and single binary runs on any platform.

There is also MakoServer.

https://makoserver.net/

More for embedded but runs in anything and also very batteries included, like Redbean including SQLite and JSON for example.