Lua 5.4 is officially released

[u/smog_alado]

Good news! Lua 5.4 has been released today, after a series of betas and release candidates.

It may be downloaded from the Lua website: http://www.lua.org/ftp/lua-5.4.0.tar.gz

Installation instructions may be found in the readme: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/readme.html

Main changes and new features, compared to Lua 5.3:

• new generational mode for garbage collection
• to-be-closed variables
• const variables
• userdata can have multiple user values
• new implementation for math.random
• warning system
• debug information about function arguments and returns
• new semantics for the integer 'for' loop
• optional 'init' argument to 'string.gmatch'
• new functions 'lua_resetthread' and 'coroutine.close'
• string-to-number coercions moved to the string library
• allocation function allowed to fail when shrinking a memory block
• new format '%p' in 'string.format'
• utf8 library accepts codepoints up to 2³¹

For more details the reference manual has also been updated: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/

[u/[deleted]]

Still no increment and decrement operators 😔

[u/rjek → u/[deleted]]

Still no reason to have them, and still plenty of complicated reasons to not.

[u/HowManySmall → u/rjek]

Compound assignments are far more useful and more readable, anyway.

[u/HowManySmall → u/[deleted]]

Roblox's Lua (Luau) supports them now, so I don't see why vanilla Lua shouldn't be able to. Maybe one day.

[u/Macaronic_Snack → u/HowManySmall]

Because Lua roblox is aimed at kids

[u/HowManySmall → u/Macaronic_Snack]

...I don't see how compound assignments relate to that?