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Advantage 1 is the main reason why today's Lua is not as complex as today's JavaScript, despite Lua being older.
by catwell 12y ago
Advantage 1 is the main reason why today's Lua is not as complex as today's JavaScript, despite Lua being older.
- ANTSANTS 12y agoIt also significantly helped that Lua's main users could easily use an older implementation if something they depended on/didn't feel like fixing was removed. In contrast, breaking backwards compatibility for Javascript would be unthinkable. OTOH, there is real fragmentation between 5.1 and 5.2, so not even Lua is immune to the downsides of breaking backwards compatibility.