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Re:Luau goes open-source on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @02:34PM (#29098608)
To my understanding it’s not so much a fork of Lua as it is a complete rewrite in C++. They’ve created their own custom VM and everything. The closest version it has parity with is Lua 5.1.4, with a few compatible features from 5.2 and 5.3 backported.