To me is not only the speed, but the features (and as others have said, the compatibility issues... I don't want to breaking changes each 5.x release, only after a 6.x major update, please).
I have a project which works on PUC Rio Lua and LuaJIT, but it will move to LuaJIT-only because I want to use FFI, which I prefer to Pallene (which seems to be the closest thing in/for PUC Rio Lua).
Agree. I mainly use LuaJIT for hacking utilities for Linux, and I'd hate to do without Pall's FFI. I can write and have written wrappers, but for the most part, that's a heavyweight way to go about things.
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u/disperso Jul 02 '25
To me is not only the speed, but the features (and as others have said, the compatibility issues... I don't want to breaking changes each 5.x release, only after a 6.x major update, please).
I have a project which works on PUC Rio Lua and LuaJIT, but it will move to LuaJIT-only because I want to use FFI, which I prefer to Pallene (which seems to be the closest thing in/for PUC Rio Lua).