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by qznc 4611 days ago
Because people do not care about their TeX interpreter. Today, nearly every LaTeX writer uses pdfTex. If they switch to luaTex nothing changes, because luaTeX is (intended to be) fully backwards compatible. If you start writing your own packages, then luaTex becomes interesting.
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> Because people do not care about their TeX interpreter.

I think they might if they're at the luaTex website. How does it become interesting? Is it a secret?