Re: Why I leave Lua (Was: Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.0 (work3) now available)

[Tim Mensch <tim-lua-l@...>]

On 7/9/2014 2:41 PM, Alexander wrote:
> Currently I am using 5.2 but I am thinking permanent to switch to 
> LuaJIT so I have a more solid base.
> I hope that 5.3 will be more stable.

This is where I ended up. LuaJIT is very stable and extremely fast. The 
FFI is awesome.

I think there's a danger in stock Lua going in directions where Mike 
Pall doesn't want to follow; I'm sure I'm not the only one who cares 
about speed and stability, and the farther PUC Lua is from LuaJIT, the 
less relevant PUC Lua is to people like me. [1]

And if LuaJIT got a continue keyword, well, I wouldn't look back. ;)

Tim

[1] Which interpreter *I* use isn't really the important thing: It's the 
batteries that are key. The libraries and bindings and example code. The 
more mutually incompatible versions of Lua compete for library 
maintainer mindshare, the less likely it is that most libraries will 
support most versions. With 5.1/5.2/5.3/5.4? fragmentation of PUC Lua, 
LuaJIT 2.x may end up with the largest installed base of any Lua 
version, and consequently it could become the de facto standard that 
libraries are written for. And more libraries means more people use it, 
etc. -- a classic network effect.