sobersombrero

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   by sobersombrero 10y ago

   Just one of many issues not addressed. This code base is effectively frozen.
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   by sobersombrero 10y ago

   In theory you're right. But it's dense terse code with very little documentation. Some people can fix obvious problems around the edges, but no one would tackle a serious refactoring, porting to more recent version of Lua or add
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   by sobersombrero 10y ago

   Mike Pall may not be maintaining Luajit any longer, but he still plays some sort of role preserving his legacy - shutting down genuine problems as wontfix. Here's one example: https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/
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   by sobersombrero 10y ago

   I've used luajit. It's unsupported software. If it works, great. If not, you're screwed. The original Lua may be ten times slower than luajit, but anyone can understand and debug it. That's worth something. It's a s