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I think we can concede that there is a legitimate language fork here. I personally was not all that happy with the extent of the changes in 5.3. I would be just as happy at 5.1.



It seems like each version of lua is kind of a separate language.

Wikipedia is also sticking to lua 5.1 with no plans to change (they do not use luajit but normal lua)


> It seems like each version of lua is kind of a separate language.

In Lua's versioning scheme, each 0.1 increment is a new major version. That means Lua 5.1 => 5.2 => 5.3 => 5.4 is similar to Python 2 => 3 => 4 => 5.




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