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		haolez 12 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Programming in Lua (first edition) (2003) Out of curiosity: is LuaJIT supporting only 5.1 because of technical difficulties imposed by newer versions, or is it simply that the design of newer Lua versions did not appeal to the LuaJIT maintainers?

spacechild1 12 days ago [–]

Mike Pall (LuaJIT author/maintainer) is not happy with some of the design decisions and (breaking) changes:

https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Port-bitop-to-53,1

The biggest issue certainly is the addition of integer types.

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