Thank you. It seems the major difference is that we are fiercely NIH, or as you put it a bit more mildly, DIY. We very quickly switched to our own socket imple

Thank you. It seems the major difference is that we are fiercely NIH, or as you put it a bit more mildly, DIY. We very quickly switched to our own socket implementation, we built our own IDE based on lua's remdebug and Scintilla (this was way before Visual Studio Code was a thing), etc. I wouldn't attempt to use a "lua JSON library", we'd wrap an existing C JSON library and have it convert to/from Lua structures. At our scale and business model - lots of reuse across products, small programmer turnover - this is quite OK; I don't feel like wasting work when I do something like that, it's investing in the future.