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

[Thomas Jericke <tjericke@...>]

On 24.01.2017 19:25, Martin wrote:
> On 17-01-22 02:46 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
> > It was thus said that the Great Las once stated:
> > > "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.
> >    "Never" while Mike was maintaining it.  He's looking for a person (or
> > persons) to take over the project but so far, no one has really stepped up.
> >
> >    -spc
> BTW what the differences between 5.1 and 5.3 that make it so hard to
> update code generator?
>
> Martin.

Yielding over pcalls (or c code barries in general) is also quite a big 
change.
--
Thomas