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1. Each minor version of the language is distinct enough to be incompatible with the previous version. A project embeds one specific version of Lua and never up
by shadowofneptune 4y ago
1. Each minor version of the language is distinct enough to be incompatible with the previous version. A project embeds one specific version of Lua and never upgrades it.
2. Since it is embedded, it has a pretty small standard library that the embedder can remove or extend.
Both lead to Lua communities being more about individual projects which embed it.
- frou_dh 4y agoA good example of this is the Max/MSP audiovisual environment, which, amongst other things, has both Lua 5.1 and an ancient JavaScript engine (JaegerMonkey from Firefox 4) embedded in it to this day.