[ianm218]

Tangently related but I’ve been deep in Lua recently working on a rust implementation that supports Lua 5.1-5.5 in one Rust Binary https://github.com/ianm199/omnilua.

My ultimate goal was to support LuaJIT in Rust as well but this does not make it easier.

[valorzard]

Also, one issue I have with this repo is that, since so much of it seems to use Claude, as an actual human I struggle to read and parse any of the information.

For example, what’s the performance like?

[lifthrasiir]

Oh wow, seriously, I always thought Lua should have been like this. The 5.1/5.2/5.3+ split was so painful.

> My ultimate goal was to support LuaJIT in Rust as well but this does not make it easier.

I think you could stop right before the syntax extension.

[genxy]

This is amazing! Can a program call across versions? Like could we take a Lua 5.1 codebase and upgrade only a portion of it at a time to a new Lua version?