Re: Lua and backwards compatibility - was Re: [ANN] Lua 5.3.4 (rc2) now available,

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"Once LuaJIT will support 5.3"

never. Mike Pall said that he isn't going to, so it would have to be a fork of LuaJIT.

Den 22/01/2017 15.53 skrev "Bulat Ziganshin" <bulat.ziganshin@gmail.com>:

Hello Dibyendu,

Thursday, January 12, 2017, 5:54:14 PM, you wrote:

> Firstly, I see that many libraries are still on 5.1 and so many people
> have not bothered to upgrade.

i think main reason that makes 5.1 so special is LuaJIT compatibility.
Once  LuaJIT  will support 5.3 or 6.0, libraries will drop 5.1 support
like they dropped support for 5.0

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