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Ravi catches my interest, then frustrates me. The Lua 5.4* compatibility statement. “Well we’re 5.3, we forked 5.3 I don’t agree with a minor 5.4 detail so we’r
by as-j 6y ago
Ravi catches my interest, then frustrates me. The Lua 5.4* compatibility statement. “Well we’re 5.3, we forked 5.3 I don’t agree with a minor 5.4 detail so we’re stuck on 5.3” It’s similar to LuaJIT stuck on 5.1.
I don’t think it does the Lua world any favors to be stuck on so many versions. It causes extra work for library developers, makes for poor code samples, and confusion for new adopters. It’s not like Lua is moving quickly with versions either. Every ~5 years for a minor version?
*) yes I know 5.4 is brand new.
- anonymoushn 6y agoLua does not use semver. Every minor version is a breaking change like changing the way function environments work, adding integers and integer division, or adding <const> and <close>