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Comment by orthoxerox

12 hours ago

Why won't it be compatible? Any code written in Lua 5.1 will run on LuaJIT.

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orthoxerox

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matheusmoreira  3 hours ago

But not the other way around.

  • orthoxerox  2 hours ago

    LuaJIT has always been a superset of 5.1.

    • matheusmoreira  1 hour ago

      Which is why it should be a new language. Like C and C++.

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