Comment by matheusmoreira
18 hours ago
Looks 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?
18 hours ago
Looks 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?
Why won't it be compatible? Any code written in Lua 5.1 will run on LuaJIT.
But not the other way around.
LuaJIT has always been a superset of 5.1.
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well, it doesn’t say Lua5.1-JIT
It could be opt in.
Are there any rough estimates on popularity of lua implementations? At this point it feels lua means luajit
not even close, because there are a lot of places where you can't run LuaJIT
Where can you not run LuaJIT? Genuinely curious
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LuaJIT is not just a JIT, it also includes high speed interpreters for x86, Arm, and more.