On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Tim Mensch <tim-luajit@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Regardless, once you DO have time, I think I at least would find your rant > very interesting. :) > Same here. After all, we all do care what happens to Lua. The big Lua 5.2 mistake was not deprecating features (it turned out we can live without function environments) but breaking the C API. And I can't see any really good technical reason for doing so. That immediately made 5.2 adoption conditional on people going to the trouble of rebuilding, and so on.