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So is LuaJIT resuming active development after a decade or so of only maintenance? Great! A lot of these changes make sense (although some of them are a bit to

by pansa2 3mo ago

So is LuaJIT resuming active development after a decade or so of only maintenance? Great! A lot of these changes make sense (although some of them are a bit too TIMTOWTDI for my taste) - but perhaps LuaJIT 3 would benefit from a change of name as well? Certainly with all these changes, it would be more like a separate language than merely a JIT-compiled version of Lua.

201984 3mo ago
>TIMTOWTDI What on earth is this supposed to mean?
- matheusmoreira 3mo ago
  There is more than one way to do it.
- Twirrim 3mo ago
  There Is More Than One Way To Do It. That takes me back a bit. It's a perl-ism. I used to think it was a great design feature but I've come to strongly prefer "There should be one way to do it, and it should be obvious"
  - 201984 3mo ago
    Interesting, thank you.
  - ncruces 3mo ago
    Using acronyms is one of those ways. /s
  - BobBagwill 3mo ago
    TCBOO, AKA, the Highlander Conjecture.
- deleted 3mo ago
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orthoxerox 3mo ago
A bunch of them are from Luau, the Roblox fork of Lua and the dialect most young programmers know. Adding them to LuaJIT will make it easier to write for both Zoomers and AI agents, who have been exposed to a lot of Luau code.
- krapp 3mo ago
  I know the LuaJIT maintainer(s?) will never add it because it's too radical a departure from Lua but I wish they would include Luau's type annotations. There are typed languages like Teal that will compile to Lua that should work (although I've had a difficult time getting Teal to work with cdefs) and you can kind of fake it by using C structs obviously but having such a feature be native to Lua itself would be nice.
matheusmoreira 3mo ago
> but perhaps LuaJIT 3 would benefit from a change of name as well? > Certainly with all these changes, it would be more like a separate language than merely a JIT-compiled version of Lua. I agree. I suggested this on the GitHub issue but got nothing but downvotes.

by pansa2 3mo ago

201984 3mo ago

>TIMTOWTDI What on earth is this supposed to mean?

matheusmoreira 3mo ago
There is more than one way to do it.
Twirrim 3mo ago
There Is More Than One Way To Do It. That takes me back a bit. It's a perl-ism. I used to think it was a great design feature but I've come to strongly prefer "There should be one way to do it, and it should be obvious"
- 201984 3mo ago
  Interesting, thank you.
- ncruces 3mo ago
  Using acronyms is one of those ways. /s
- BobBagwill 3mo ago
  TCBOO, AKA, the Highlander Conjecture.
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orthoxerox 3mo ago

A bunch of them are from Luau, the Roblox fork of Lua and the dialect most young programmers know. Adding them to LuaJIT will make it easier to write for both Zoomers and AI agents, who have been exposed to a lot of Luau code.

krapp 3mo ago
I know the LuaJIT maintainer(s?) will never add it because it's too radical a departure from Lua but I wish they would include Luau's type annotations. There are typed languages like Teal that will compile to Lua that should work (although I've had a difficult time getting Teal to work with cdefs) and you can kind of fake it by using C structs obviously but having such a feature be native to Lua itself would be nice.

matheusmoreira 3mo ago

> but perhaps LuaJIT 3 would benefit from a change of name as well? > Certainly with all these changes, it would be more like a separate language than merely a JIT-compiled version of Lua. I agree. I suggested this on the GitHub issue but got nothing but downvotes.