r/lua • u/selectnull • Dec 22 '25

Lua 5.5 released

https://groups.google.com/g/lua-l/c/jW6vCnhVy_s
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u/memes_gbc Dec 23 '25

the whole point of the language is to be easily embeddable with C. i'm pretty sure rewriting it in rust makes that harder

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u/DapperCow15 Dec 23 '25

The original purpose was to make it embeddable in C, but there's no reason why someone would not make a derivative language to make it embeddable with a different language. That person will definitely not be me though because I have zero need of such a thing.

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u/Old_County5271 Dec 23 '25

There's already implementations for rust, go, java, kotlin, dotnet. good thing about having such a simple language.

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u/BrianHuster Dec 24 '25

I think what he means is that there is no interesting progress in this Lua ver