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Manuel Hernandez

Mar 11

[Job] Remote Lua developers for AI code evaluation ($55–$70/hr)

Hello Lua community, My name is Manuel Hernández and I work with Alignerr, the expert network behind

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[Job] Remote Lua developers for AI code evaluation ($55–$70/hr)

Hello Lua community, My name is Manuel Hernández and I work with Alignerr, the expert network behind

Mar 11

Weixie Cui, Roberto Ierusalimschy2

Mar 11

[PATCH] BUG: Missing 'lua_State' parameter in 'floatforloop'

> 'floatforloop' uses 'L' in 'luai_numadd(L, idx, step)' but does > not

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[PATCH] BUG: Missing 'lua_State' parameter in 'floatforloop'

> 'floatforloop' uses 'L' in 'luai_numadd(L, idx, step)' but does > not

Mar 11

Kritzel Kratzel

Mar 10

[ANN] OneLuaPro 5.5.0.0 released

It's official - OneLuaPro now fully supports Lua 5.5. Downloads: https://github.com/OneLuaPro/

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[ANN] OneLuaPro 5.5.0.0 released

It's official - OneLuaPro now fully supports Lua 5.5. Downloads: https://github.com/OneLuaPro/

Mar 10

Vadim (vadcx), … Roberto Ierusalimschy3

Mar 8

table.unpack does not produce a line number on error

> When table.unpack encounters an error (such as the above or "attempt to get length of a

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table.unpack does not produce a line number on error

> When table.unpack encounters an error (such as the above or "attempt to get length of a

Mar 8

nobody, … Roberto Ierusalimschy3

Mar 6

Observations from a bytecode validation feasibility experiment

> As an example, VARARGPREP is tagged as A ("instruction sets register A") > even

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Observations from a bytecode validation feasibility experiment

> As an example, VARARGPREP is tagged as A ("instruction sets register A") > even

Mar 6

Ross Burton, Yao Zi2

Mar 5

Dynamic loading of libreadline opens wrong library filename

On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 06:14:25AM -0800, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > As of lua 5.5[1]

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Dynamic loading of libreadline opens wrong library filename

On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 06:14:25AM -0800, Ross Burton wrote: > Hi, > > As of lua 5.5[1]

Mar 5

Mar 3

[PATCH] Add support for CYGWIN.

Hello, I would like to share my patch for supporting CYGWIN into LUA. The patch just needs few simple

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[PATCH] Add support for CYGWIN.

Hello, I would like to share my patch for supporting CYGWIN into LUA. The patch just needs few simple

Mar 3

重归混沌, … Philippe Verdy10

Mar 1

Question about SETFIELD nil emission in table constructor codegen

Not really: a table literal can be copied/instantiated much faster without using Lua bytecode

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Question about SETFIELD nil emission in table constructor codegen

Not really: a table literal can be copied/instantiated much faster without using Lua bytecode

Mar 1

Richard Beckmann, … Sewbacca6

Mar 1

__builtin_expect function isn't available in gcc below version 3

For completion's sake: yes it can be configured to do that, run luarocks config variables.CFLAGS

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__builtin_expect function isn't available in gcc below version 3

For completion's sake: yes it can be configured to do that, run luarocks config variables.CFLAGS

Mar 1

Weixie Cui, … Philippe Verdy5

Feb 26

[PATCH v3] Fix variadic type mismatch in pushutfchar -- passes long but %U expects unsigned long

Also if "%U" means UTF-8, the only acceptable values for a standard result must be positive

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[PATCH v3] Fix variadic type mismatch in pushutfchar -- passes long but %U expects unsigned long

Also if "%U" means UTF-8, the only acceptable values for a standard result must be positive

Feb 26

Feb 26

[PATCH] fix: should process return value aux_close

From: Weixie Cui <cuiw...@gmail.com> aux_close may return failed that should be handle.

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[PATCH] fix: should process return value aux_close

From: Weixie Cui <cuiw...@gmail.com> aux_close may return failed that should be handle.

Feb 26

Sewbacca, … Denis Dos Santos Silva6

Feb 21

A few questions about memory allocation

Is it possible to allocate data on the stack rather than the heap? you can try implement a `arena

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A few questions about memory allocation

Is it possible to allocate data on the stack rather than the heap? you can try implement a `arena

Feb 21

Arnaud Delobelle, … Martin Eden5

Feb 20

ANN] Golua v0.2.0 (implementing Lua 5.5)

On 2026-02-20 18:59, le...@neilson-levin.org wrote: > Does it provide a packager to bundle Lua app

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ANN] Golua v0.2.0 (implementing Lua 5.5)

On 2026-02-20 18:59, le...@neilson-levin.org wrote: > Does it provide a packager to bundle Lua app

Feb 20

Lars Müller, John Belmonte2

Feb 19

Link rot on the Lua Wiki

I've removed the offending item from LuaLinks. On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM 'Lars Müller

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Link rot on the Lua Wiki

I've removed the offending item from LuaLinks. On Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 8:59 AM 'Lars Müller

Feb 19

Ben Sivan, … Andrey Dobrovolsky6

Feb 17

[ANN] Luam: A minimalist, procedural Lua dialect for CAD (Luametry)‏

Hi Ben, Lua without closures and metatables is like Lisp without parentheses. Just a joke, I don'

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[ANN] Luam: A minimalist, procedural Lua dialect for CAD (Luametry)‏

Hi Ben, Lua without closures and metatables is like Lisp without parentheses. Just a joke, I don'

Feb 17

Sergey Bronnikov, … Roberto Ierusalimschy6

Feb 17

Undefined behavior in utf8_decode()

> there is an issue with undefined behavior in lutf8lib.c because shift > exponent may be too

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Undefined behavior in utf8_decode()

> there is an issue with undefined behavior in lutf8lib.c because shift > exponent may be too

Feb 17

Andre Leiradella, … Roberto Ierusalimschy15

Feb 17

Unaligned memory access

> > I think what they meant is you can pass a custom allocator function in > lua_newstate()

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Unaligned memory access

> > I think what they meant is you can pass a custom allocator function in > lua_newstate()

Feb 17

Sergey Bronnikov, … Yao Zi5

Feb 17

An unsigned overflow in luai_makeseed()

On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 01:50:39AM -0800, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: > Hello, > > the function

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An unsigned overflow in luai_makeseed()

On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 01:50:39AM -0800, Sergey Bronnikov wrote: > Hello, > > the function

Feb 17

Kritzel Kratzel, … Błażej Roszkowski7

Feb 15

Table length evaluations --> Lua 5.5 vs. Lua 5.4

The comment in ltable.c line 1291 above luaH_getn: ** Try to find a border in table 't'. (A

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Table length evaluations --> Lua 5.5 vs. Lua 5.4

The comment in ltable.c line 1291 above luaH_getn: ** Try to find a border in table 't'. (A

Feb 15

Marcus Lund, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo2

Feb 13

luaU_undump stub in noparser.c

> Regarding noparser.c at https://www.lua.org/extras/ > > The luaU_undump stub in noparser.c

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luaU_undump stub in noparser.c

> Regarding noparser.c at https://www.lua.org/extras/ > > The luaU_undump stub in noparser.c

Feb 13

Brisbane Silicon, … Roberto Ierusalimschy3

Feb 12

> We're launching a Feather compatible version of our ELM11 board - > see https://www.

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> We're launching a Feather compatible version of our ELM11 board - > see https://www.

Feb 12

Mabrooka “Yosr” Ben Belgacem, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo2

Feb 12

[PATCH] liblua: link shared library against libm to fix undefined sinh on glibc

> While running unit tests in a glibc-based environment, I encountered a runtime > issue when

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[PATCH] liblua: link shared library against libm to fix undefined sinh on glibc

> While running unit tests in a glibc-based environment, I encountered a runtime > issue when

Feb 12

Kritzel Kratzel

Feb 11

[ANN] OneLuaPro 5.4.8.3 – Event-driven Multi-threading and SQLite3+sqlean Integration

Hi everyone, OneLuaPro 5.4.8.3 has been released. This update introduces significant changes to the

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[ANN] OneLuaPro 5.4.8.3 – Event-driven Multi-threading and SQLite3+sqlean Integration

Hi everyone, OneLuaPro 5.4.8.3 has been released. This update introduces significant changes to the

Feb 11

Eric Covener, … Denis Dos Santos Silva14

Feb 9

regression on zOS between 5.4.8 to 5.5.0 on zOS

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM Denis Dos Santos Silva <de...@roo.com.br> wrote: > > Hi

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regression on zOS between 5.4.8 to 5.5.0 on zOS

On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 6:20 PM Denis Dos Santos Silva <de...@roo.com.br> wrote: > > Hi

Feb 9

blogdron (BLOGDRON), … Martin Eden6

Feb 9

Its okey or not?

Thank you all ::) понедельник, 9 февраля 2026 г. в 21:06:14 UTC+3, Martin Eden: On 2026-02-09 18:21,

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Its okey or not?

Thank you all ::) понедельник, 9 февраля 2026 г. в 21:06:14 UTC+3, Martin Eden: On 2026-02-09 18:21,

Feb 9

Matěj Cepl, … Martin Eden4

Feb 9

[PATCH] Allow external definition of Lua library paths in luaconf.h

On 2026-02-09 02:37, Matěj Cepl wrote: > ping? Is there any hope this could be reviewed? Hello

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[PATCH] Allow external definition of Lua library paths in luaconf.h

On 2026-02-09 02:37, Matěj Cepl wrote: > ping? Is there any hope this could be reviewed? Hello

Feb 9

Jure Bagić, Roberto Ierusalimschy4

Feb 7

Missing global warning in lua interactive mode

I guess what to me looked wrong was the 'const' attribute: > global <const> A = 1;

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Missing global warning in lua interactive mode

I guess what to me looked wrong was the 'const' attribute: > global <const> A = 1;

Feb 7

Feb 7

[off-lua-l list:] Testing Rocks...

G'day Thijs, Thanks for responding to my 5.5 rock incompatibility post. I'd be happy to post

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[off-lua-l list:] Testing Rocks...

G'day Thijs, Thanks for responding to my 5.5 rock incompatibility post. I'd be happy to post

Feb 7

Martin Eden, Roberto Ierusalimschy2

Feb 7

Minor documentation inconsistency

> Looks like "global" declaration statement is put incomplete in > EBNF syntax

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Minor documentation inconsistency

> Looks like "global" declaration statement is put incomplete in > EBNF syntax

Feb 7

Marc Balmer, Sergey Zakharchenko2

Feb 6

externalstring and to-be-closed

Hello Marc, On Fri, Feb 6, 2026, 17:34 Marc Balmer <mhba...@gmail.com> wrote: Trying to better

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externalstring and to-be-closed

Hello Marc, On Fri, Feb 6, 2026, 17:34 Marc Balmer <mhba...@gmail.com> wrote: Trying to better

Feb 6

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