Re: A rant about backward-incompatible changes

[Simon Cozens <simon@...>]

> On Jul 15, 2015, at 00:09, Coda Highland <chighland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As Lua's primary goal is to be embedded, applications that run from
> the system-installed Lua interpreter are a fairly recent development.
> For most deployments you're expected to roll your own Lua.

Well, that's fine, I guess. But Hisham and the luarocks people are trying to build a module ecosystem, which is an extremely useful thing for developers to have. That's made a lot more complicated if the modules are either targeted for a particular dialect (which makes using them in arbitrary code a bit of a crap shoot) or have to be compatible across versions - leading to the original problem.