The Lua community needs to learn to move on

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Mike Pall's deletion of old LuaJIT tags reflects the challenge of getting users to upgrade, aiming to force upgrades after decades of outdated versions.
The Lua community struggles with supporting multiple old language versions (5.1–5.5 and LuaJIT variants), leading to a paralyzing maintenance burden.
For Lua as an extensible language, the author argues for moving to support only the latest PUC-Rio Lua and LuaJIT, similar to other dynamic languages.
The historical Lua/LuaJIT schism and the author's own compat-5.3 library contributed to a 5.1 anchor that persists today.
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Library authors should follow the leads of Roberto Ierusalimschy and Mike Pall by EOLing old versions, rather than indefinitely supporting legacy ecosystems.

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