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matheusmoreiratoday at 1:21 AM3 repliesview on HN

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?


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ulbutoday at 4:47 AM

well, it doesn’t say Lua5.1-JIT

a_t48today at 1:52 AM

It could be opt in.

sourcegrifttoday at 2:18 AM

Are there any rough estimates on popularity of lua implementations? At this point it feels lua means luajit

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