There is divergence, it's been a known issue in the community for years. I already had that slide in my 2013 "state of the Lua ecosystem" talk: http://files.cat

There is divergence, it's been a known issue in the community for years. I already had that slide in my 2013 "state of the Lua ecosystem" talk: http://files.catwell.info/presentations/2013-11-lua-workshop-lua-ecosystem/?full#34 http://files.catwell.info/presentations/2013-11-lua-workshop... The views on the issue amongst the community are divided too. Personally, I have decided most of my new code won't support Lua versions older than 5.3. That means no LuaJIT. If I have to use OpenResty seriously again, I will fork and adapt it to support PUC Lua 5.3. In the meantime, I use Xavante and WSAPI for the little Web code I write in Lua.