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A comment on Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting language derived from Lua. Parent comment

Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by thrance on Thursday September 18, 2025 @11:43AM (#45291069)
I think it's even worse than that, luau and luaJIT have evolved in different directions than the official lua project and they are now all sublty incompatible with each others. They all branch from lua 5.1 but it feels like there isn't an offical standard anymore.
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Re:Luau – fast, small, safe, gradually typed scripting langu... by parenwielder on Thursday September 18, 2025 @04:41PM (#45294755)
At the very least, there's a common core of Lua 5.1 that works across Luau, LuaJIT, and PUC Lua, so it's not as if there's no standardization here. We definitely aspire to include _more_ than just Lua 5.1 in Luau though.
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