Comment by orthoxerox
14 hours ago
A bunch of them are from Luau, the Roblox fork of Lua and the dialect most young programmers know. Adding them to LuaJIT will make it easier to write for both Zoomers and AI agents, who have been exposed to a lot of Luau code.
I know the LuaJIT maintainer(s?) will never add it because it's too radical a departure from Lua but I wish they would include Luau's type annotations. There are typed languages like Teal that will compile to Lua that should work (although I've had a difficult time getting Teal to work with cdefs) and you can kind of fake it by using C structs obviously but having such a feature be native to Lua itself would be nice.