[wruza]

Loading raw bytecode is known to be unsafe, and iirc that is mentioned in lua_load/luaL_load* documentation.

A preprocessor could spit out Lua code with the same effect and less complexity. Really interesting why and how these decision were made.

[mananaysiempre]

For what it’s worth, Metalua also generated PUC-Lua bytecode directly instead of source code, making it incompatible with LuaJIT (which might have been part of the reason why it died).