alt Hacker NewsLuaJIT has held back the lua ecosystem for over a decade. There's no reason to not at least try to move the implementation closer to luau or puc lua, not create yet more incompatible syntax
LuaJIT has held back the lua ecosystem for over a decade. There's no reason to not at least try to move the implementation closer to luau or puc lua, not create yet more incompatible syntax
I don't think Lua is your average ecosystem. Lua is used as an embedded interpreter. For example, Neovim doesn't want to change its configuration language's syntax just because there is a new version of Lua available.
On the contrary, we can claim that luajit has stabilized lua for implementations and for users (strengthening Lua 5.1 dominance, which makes the experience more homogenous across apps).