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Why couldn't LuaJIT support both? Feels like a needless limitation imposed on all its users. I noticed this problem when making plugins for neovim.


IIRC Mike Pall (LuaJIT’s “BDFL”, and also the only person who’s ever really worked on it) dislikes some features of newer Lua versions, particularly 5.2’s _ENV.




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