Looks like LuaJIT is really going to fork away from Lua this time. After these changes, it won't be a compatible Lua 5.1 implementation anymore, it will be a new language.

So shouldn't it have a new name?

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a_t48 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It could be opt in.

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sourcegrift an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Are there any rough estimates on popularity of lua implementations? At this point it feels lua means luajit

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latenightcoding an hour ago | parent [-]

not even close, because there are a lot of places where you can't run LuaJIT

	▲	tuvix 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Where can you not run LuaJIT? Genuinely curious