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> declarations for global variables That's huge. I wish LuaJIT adopted this, or at least added a compile time flag to enable it.
How hard is it to put a simple hello world example on the homepage.
I 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.
That's directly contrary to what would make it acceptable as a web spec, compared to e.g. wasm being powerful enough to be a compile target that can support wasm.
> declarations for global variables That's huge. I wish LuaJIT adopted this, or at least added a compile time flag to enable it.
Yeah, I wish someone would pick up LuaJIT development. From what I've heard it in practice isn't developed anymore and is stuck at Lua 5.1 still.
> for-loop variables are read only Seems like an odd change, I wonder what the rationale is. Just making it clear to people new to the language that you can't adjust it mid-loop to change the loop count I guess?
https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/manual.html#3.3.5
The loop count was fixed at the start of the loop. One of the reasons for this was performance. For loops behave differently if the step count is positive or negative, and it's a bit faster to compute that once, before the loop, than to repeat it every iteration.
I 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.
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Because Lua's Hello World is just `print("hello, world")`, which looks a lot like Python and doesn't tell you much about actually using the language.
The point is, it shouldn’t be too hard just to find an example and get a sense of the language.
One of the new features I found interesting, declarations for global variables, is buried in the reference manual. Here's a link to the section that discusses it: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/manual.html#2.2
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Yeah, I wish someone would pick up LuaJIT development. From what I've heard it in practice isn't developed anymore and is stuck at Lua 5.1 still.
Not true. It's getting a constant stream of bugfixes. It's also not "stuck" on Lua 5.1, but is deliberately not following Lua's path, except for some backports. There's also a recent post about how a LuaJIT 3 might work.
One of the new features I found interesting, declarations for global variables, is buried in the reference manual. Here's a link to the section that discusses it: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.5/manual.html#2.2
Why did you find this interesting?