please resurrect Mike Pall
Lua 5.5
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Re: Lua 5.5
#22Cannot wait for another version of Lua to sit unused basically everywhere. Truly is a shame, everything seems to have settled on 5.1 for the most part without ever being updated, or any intention of it being updated. Some really nice features post 5.1 I understand each version of Lua introduces breaking changes in the language, which isn't great as the language becomes fragmented (Or not really, once again 5.1 is pre…
> everything seems to have settled on 5.1 Not exactly. LuaJIT has backported various hot features from 5.2 and 5.3 as long as they're unlikely to break 5.1 code.
True. But
1. The luajit documentation basically just had a list of features. AFAIK there isn't any documentation that combines the 5.1 reference with luajit extensions (including things that were backported)
2. In some cases, for example Neovim, luajit extensions aren't guaranteed to be available. It just says there will be a lua runtime compatible with 5.1. Which means a truly portable neovim plugin can't use those extensions
3. There are features from later lua versions I would like to have (in particular and ) that will probably never get backported.
4. Some features require luajit to be built with special flags
Re: Lua 5.5
#23List of changes: https://lua.org/manual/5.5/readme.html#changes
Re: Lua 5.5
#24please resurrect Mike Pall
Mike Pall made a commit to LuaJIT just a couple of weeks ago.
Re: Lua 5.5
#25We never got a new edition of Programming in Lua for 5.4... does that mean we won't ever get one for 5.5?
Oh I hope that don't do that.
Re: Lua 5.5
#26I feel like Lua is absolutely underrated. I just wish one of the mainstream browsers actually puts their foot down and starts supporting Lua as scripting language.
Re: Lua 5.5
#27I feel like Lua is absolutely underrated. I just wish one of the mainstream browsers actually puts their foot down and starts supporting Lua as scripting language.
Curious how this fits in with WASM
Re: Lua 5.5
#28I feel like Lua is absolutely underrated. I just wish one of the mainstream browsers actually puts their foot down and starts supporting Lua as scripting language.
If they can lock it to some version to avoid breaking code every time there is a new Lua version. Or Lua stop making breaking changes.
Re: Lua 5.5
#29How hard is it to put a simple hello world example on the homepage.
Re: Lua 5.5
#30I feel like Lua is absolutely underrated. I just wish one of the mainstream browsers actually puts their foot down and starts supporting Lua as scripting language.
Ypu could probably run it in wasm. Of course, without access to the DOM it won't go any further than anything else on wasm. The whole thing is nuts if you ask me. So much lost potential.