Be careful using LuaJIT as a representative example for anything. Not every language implementation can be written by a human super-optimizer like Mike Pall! B

Be careful using LuaJIT as a representative example for anything. Not every language implementation can be written by a human super-optimizer like Mike Pall! But yeah, people have a better idea now of what features need to be built into a language to get good performance, and Rust shows off many of them. Finally, nostalgia for the old days often includes a failure to remember the many limitations of software back then.