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by sourcegrift 5 hours ago
Are there any rough estimates on popularity of lua implementations? At this point it feels lua means luajit
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latenightcoding 5 hours ago
not even close, because there are a lot of places where you can't run LuaJIT
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tuvix 4 hours ago
Where can you not run LuaJIT? Genuinely curious
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Boxxed 3 hours ago
Wasm and platforms like iOS and Nintendo Switch (I think).
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extrememacaroni 4 hours ago
anywhere that does not allow self modifying code such as app stores.
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Dylan16807 3 hours ago
LuaJIT is not just a JIT, it also includes high speed interpreters for x86, Arm, and more.
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