After Mike Pall left (10 year ago, wow!), for all intents and purposes, development ground to a halt.
https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT...
I assume he's off somewhere with _why, questing for chunky bacon.
https://www.freelists.org/post/luajit/Looking-for-new-LuaJIT...
I assume he's off somewhere with _why, questing for chunky bacon.
Kind of surprising if no one picked it up when it's so actively used by major projects (like neovim and others). It blocks using more recent Lua for them.
LuaJIT’s code is very complex and esoteric, I don’t think anyone other than Mike Pall has done any significant work on it.
If you want to use a more recent Lua version, of course that's available. If you want to use LuaJIT then you know exactly what you're dealing with and that there won't be any weird surprises in the future.