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Re:LuaJIT Remake: An ongoing attempt to re-engineer LuaJIT f... by LAC-Tech on Saturday November 26, 2022 @06:20PM (#33758003)
Baseless speculation - was it because the VM was so small and well documented?

Never did program much in Lua but really enjoyed the parts where they describe the virtual machine and instruction set.

EDIT:

Link to the paper I mean https://www.lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf

For a layman like myself this is very approachable. Again I cannot think of another VM language that has anything this small and well documented.

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