Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development

Re:Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development by anonymoushn on Saturday December 21, 2019 @08:39AM (#21851144)

Features in PUC-Rio Lua after Lua 5.2 or so are mostly all terrible, with the possible exception of <toclose> (a bad version of golang's defer). So I respect the choice not to add those features. There was still lots of work to do to improve the GC and such though.

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Re:Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development by doomrobo on Saturday December 21, 2019 @10:38AM (#21851648)

What about integers and bitops in 5.3? That seems like a big deal

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Re:Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development by s_y_n_t_a_x on Saturday December 21, 2019 @11:52AM (#21852081)

Bitops are in LuaJit

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Re:Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development by lifthrasiir on Saturday December 21, 2019 @03:45PM (#21853271)

Lua 5.3 integers are 64 bits long by default, and that makes a real difference.

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Re:Moonjit – Fork of LuaJIT to Continue Development by DarkWiiPlayer on Sunday December 22, 2019 @02:44AM (#21855829)

That's trivial to implement as a C function though, so no real need to add it as a language feature

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