future of luajit?

[Timothy Menzies]

luajit is lagging lua 5.3 (e.g. _G, not _ENV, is supported).

should we expect updates to luajit?

-- timm

[Dirk Laurie]

Post by Timothy Menzies
luajit is lagging lua 5.3 (e.g. _G, not _ENV, is supported).

Mike Pall always said _ENV would not be supported, but a lot of 5.3 is.

Post by Timothy Menzies
should we expect updates to luajit?

Don't ask us. The LuaJIT list is still quite active. Maybe the answer
to this question lurks in that list archive.

https://www.freelists.org/archive/luajit/09-2018

[云风]

Post by Timothy Menzies
luajit is lagging lua 5.3 (e.g. _G, not _ENV, is supported).
should we expect updates to luajit?

It’s simple to patch luajit to support _ENV .

https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/A-patch-for-ENV-support