Re: Who is using modified Lua versions, what are they and why?

In my case it was very simple - I use Lua at my coding-puzzle-website for
some small subset of problems (google "codeabbey space invaders" for
example).

Lua was chosen as the language that supposedly everyone can easily pick up
quickly (and which I can compile to javascript to make it work in webpage
demo).

This worked, but after several puzzles some most devoted users expressed
their frustration with very minor features of Lua syntax - unusual spelling
for "not equals" operator, lack of "augmented assignment" seemingly were
most frustrating for them.

What could I do? Just to keep assuring people that they should get used to
it (given that they have no goal of full-time switching to Lua)? I
preferred to try and amend Lua source code so these things will work at
least partially / in general case.

On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 3:55 AM 'Sewbacca' via lua-l <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Lua is small, readable and easily modifiable which are huge perks. However
> they only come in handy if you are in control of the application itself
> which is running Lua. If you rely on the default distributed Lua version,
> you can't just change the parser. Especially if you are writing modules,
> then you have very little control over the runtime.
>
> So out of curiosity: Who is using modified Lua versions, what are the
> modifications and why do you need them?
>
> ~ Sewbacca
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