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This has to be upvoted more! There was already a lot of talk about LuaJit being unmaintainted last year. When Mike Pall was even more active.
by jpfr 7y ago
This has to be upvoted more!
There was already a lot of talk about LuaJit being unmaintainted last year. When Mike Pall was even more active.
- Rochus 7y agoRight. People prefer to post bullshit instead (e.g. that Pall was no real person, Lua 5.3 being superior, and the like).
- anonymoushn 7y agoIf Mike abdicated his post, I would prefer to take him at his word.
- Rochus 7y agoWhat do you mean by that? Don't understand.
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- anonymoushn 7y agoHe publicly posted that he was stepping down from maintaining luajit and did not subsequently post anything saying that he had changed his mind.
- Rochus 7y agoWell, he doesn't owe anybody anything. On the contrary, I think it's generous that he still cares about the project.
- anonymoushn 7y agoSure. It's appropriate to say that the project is unmaintained if he doesn't plan to maintain it.
- Rochus 7y agoIt's not unmaintained. There are at least three companies doing their own maintenance and development on a professional and organized level. Most even open source their results. And there are also individuals and groups working on forks. There is no "central institution" organizing a "main repository" as in Linux, but there is relevant progress and the will for a stable product in each of the forks.
- anonymoushn 7y agoI worked at Cloudflare, sometimes on luajit. When I find myself merging patches from random lua community members that will never be in an official point release to fix crashes in well-behaved lua code, I'm not sure what other word property describes the situation. It may warm my heart to know that lukego, yichun, and siddhesh are also merging the same patch, but it doesn't really help.
- rurban 7y agoMike is a real person from Munich, but his name is certainly not Pall. That's what they mean. The rest is bullshit: 5.3 being superior, and such.
- Rochus 7y agoWhat makes you believe his name is not Pall? I have other information.