Re: Lua version census - the results!

[nobody <nobody+lua-list@...>]

On 29/01/2020 02.35, Coda Highland wrote:
> Another point of consideration is that 5.1 was the main Lua release 
> for almost six years. 5.2 lasted less than three and never generated 
> any noteworthy hype while bringing a controversial compatibility 
> break along with it, effectively giving 5.1 additional time in the 
> spotlight. The fact that LuaJIT was drop-in compatible with 5.1
> meant that targeting 5.1 was an even better idea.

Another part of that problem is that for a far too long, the only Lua
you could get on Debian/Ubuntu was Lua 5.1… Back then they didn't have
them slotted[1] and so everything was built against 5.1 and all you
could get was 5.1… which means that's what you defaulted to when
starting a new project, or else it "wouldn't run" on Debian/Ubuntu.

-- nobody

[1] (I don't know what the Debian term for that is… being able to have
different versions of a package installed at the same time.)