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I think people are gradually switching over. There may be some porting involved, people may have lots of Lua code for older versions. Plus depending what you ar
by justincormack 13y ago
I think people are gradually switching over. There may be some porting involved, people may have lots of Lua code for older versions. Plus depending what you are doing the JIT may not speed things up (and you can't use it on many consoles); the 2.1 has a lot of string functions accelerated that would break jitting in 2.0. But someone has just paid for a PS4 port, so clearly many people are using it...
- tomlu 13y agoIt has worked on PS3 + Xbox360 for some years now and is significantly faster than vanilla Lua. I've no idea why more games haven't picked it up.
- pjmlp 13y agoReligion. It will take ages to move game developers away from C and C++ to other languages. Similar to how much it has taken them to move from Assembly to C and C++.
- justincormack 13y agoNo, they use Lua a lot. The discussion was about LuaJIT vs Lua...