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		soapdog 83 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I chose Lua for this blog Be aware that Lua doesn't use semver and that versions take many years to be ready. In this page: https://www.lua.org/versions.html You can see that between 5.3 and 5.4 there were five years. 5.2 to 5.3 was also a five years gap. Breaking changes are well documented and we see them years before they happen and nothing requires you to upgrade. Most code runs on 5.1 forward.

yinyang_in 83 days ago [–]

What’s their reason for not using semvar?

soapdog 82 days ago | [–]

Because Lua was created before semver was invented.

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