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IIRC Brendan Eich has talked about this - if he’d adopted Lua in 1995 instead of creating JavaScript, it wouldn’t have been Lua 5.x but Lua 2.x. Lua has improv
by pansa2 1y ago
IIRC Brendan Eich has talked about this - if he’d adopted Lua in 1995 instead of creating JavaScript, it wouldn’t have been Lua 5.x but Lua 2.x.
Lua has improved substantially from version to version because it’s been able to break compatibility. That wouldn’t be possible in the browser, so today we’d still be stuck using (an augmented version of) the outdated Lua 2.x.
- strenholme 1y agoYes, he did: https://web.archive.org/web/20191024193930/https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/1187453118553837573 https://web.archive.org/web/20191024193930/https://twitter.c... “Lua in 1995 was very different, no coros e.g., and no one would be happy if it flash-froze and then slow-forked on a different path from Lua's. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905155 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1905155 and yes, wasm is the right long-term plan. In 1995 it was supposed to be Java, but that didn't pan out!”