alt Hacker NewsLooks like LuaJIT is really going to fork away from Lua this time. After these changes, it won't be a compatible Lua 5.1 implementation anymore, it will be a new language.
So shouldn't it have a new name?
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ulbu • today at 4:47 AM
well, it doesn’t say Lua5.1-JIT
a_t48 • today at 1:52 AM
It could be opt in.
sourcegrift • today at 2:18 AM
Are there any rough estimates on popularity of lua implementations? At this point it feels lua means luajit
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Why won't it be compatible? Any code written in Lua 5.1 will run on LuaJIT.