Lua only has 5 types: boolean, float, int, string and table, so that helped offset the fact that basically only one person (Mike Pall) worked on LuaJIT. The ki

Lua only has 5 types: boolean, float, int, string and table, so that helped offset the fact that basically only one person (Mike Pall) worked on LuaJIT. The kind of complex prototypical inheritance that V8 has to deal with is a totally different issue to the goal of having a minimal, embeddable, C friendly scripting language like Lua.