I would love to go through the internals of LuaJIT, learn all the necessary things and take over it. This is like my favorite project on earth. Unfortunately I

I would love to go through the internals of LuaJIT, learn all the necessary things and take over it. This is like my favorite project on earth. Unfortunately I just graduated and don't have the necessary background yet. Since I live in Germany I was almost thinking in just going over to Mike Pall on my next vacations and be like "teach me master" xD