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I'm more familiar with luajit than Lua itself (as a project I mean). I'd be curious to know more about the fragmentation that vanilla Lua has. I know the issues that the luajit devs have with the features themselves but I wonder how and why those are decided and implemented. Is there an article or blog that goes into more details? Google isn't helping me here haha.

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It’s from a simple fact that there are rocks that were not maintained seriously (as in “business”), and there are big embedders that work as version anchors. As a result, rocks were full of 5.?-specific at the times of 5.2/3, cause people have no time nor desire to reimplement things. Idk how it is now, but my bet is on nothing changed, some popular libs became multi-headed. Lua-http doesn’t even list 5.4 as a target. Maybe 5.4=5.3, can’t remember. But if daurnimator decided to ignore it, oh my.

As of motivation, I guess the best source is their mailing list around release dates. It was hot every time. Idk if anyone blogged about it, maybe just ask there.

hmm? https://github.com/daurnimator/lua-http/commit/54606a9d3fea9...

Ah, visited this first, sorry for the noise https://daurnimator.github.io/lua-http/0.4/

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