alt Hacker NewsTangently related but I’ve been deep in Lua recently working on a rust implementation that supports Lua 5.1-5.5 in one Rust Binary https://github.com/ianm199/omnilua.
My ultimate goal was to support LuaJIT in Rust as well but this does not make it easier.
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lifthrasiir • today at 4:50 AM
Oh wow, seriously, I always thought Lua should have been like this. The 5.1/5.2/5.3+ split was so painful.
> My ultimate goal was to support LuaJIT in Rust as well but this does not make it easier.
I think you could stop right before the syntax extension.
genxy • today at 4:36 AM
This is amazing! Can a program call across versions? Like could we take a Lua 5.1 codebase and upgrade only a portion of it at a time to a new Lua version?
valorzard • today at 6:08 AM
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Also, one issue I have with this repo is that, since so much of it seems to use Claude, as an actual human I struggle to read and parse any of the information.
For example, what’s the performance like?