tomlu

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1. 181.▲
   by tomlu 14y ago

   Keep your eyes peeled for a port of the LuaJIT interpreter to the consoles. From recollection it's two or three times faster than straight Lua.
2. 182.▲
   by tomlu 14y ago

   The idea of adding at least some rudimentary UTF-8 support has been gaining traction on the Lua mailing list. So maybe for the next version of Lua you'll see some sweet Unicode.
3. 183.▲
   by tomlu 14y ago

   The reason is legacy. I personally lint all my code to prohibit global writes, and I wish I wouldn't have to. Hopefully by now language designers realise that anything -by-default is wrong. (That's right, I'm looking at you , Python.)