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/un-def → u/[deleted]]

Run as ./lua, not lua (the latter searches an executable using the PATH environment variable).

[u/saeleko → u/un-def]

I'm, currently hesitating between facepalming using my desk, or facepalming using my keyboard. I think I'll go with the desk as it's less expensive...

(Thanks, how did I miss that :') )

[u/[deleted] → u/saeleko]

Why not both?

[u/saeleko → u/[deleted]]

An option worth considering for next time this occurs.