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by alberth 1910 days ago
Sad to see LuaJIT is no longer in use.

LuaJIT was so far ahead of it's time (and still is), it's sad to see the current state of it since Mike Pall has moved on. The learned lesson for me is that, even if you have a vastly superior offering - the success of something is hugely correlated to the community behind it.

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Mike Pall is still working on LuaJIT just last week he pushed the first stage of string buffer support sponsored by some network company https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT/commit/4c6b669c419f313306b9...
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