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- Subject: Re: Looking for orphaned libraries
- From: Paul Ducklin <pducklin@...>
- Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2023 23:01:08 +0000
> Lua jit?
LuaJIT isn’t a library. It is a fork of Lua back from the Lua 5.1 days that went off down its own divergent path, essentially creating a new community with a different view of scripting languages and their runtime worlds.
It was never intended that LuaJIT would re-converge with PUC Rio Lua at any point (quite the opposite, in fact, if I remember some of the arguments about _ENV and bitops correctly), and it never did.
Because Gabriel’s proposal seems mainly to be to find a useful Lua library that isn’t 5.4-ready, and to cheerfully revive it and bring it into 2023, I therefore don’t think that anything related to LuaJIT could possibly fit the bill, given that it is incompatible by design.
Plus… I thought I heard that the inventor of LuaJIT returned to the project a year or three ago after a longish absence and therefore that it was unorphaned again, if that is a word?
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