soapdog parent
While everything you said there is true, it is a matter of taste for me. I prefer working with PUC Lua over LuaJIT. The speed improvement of LuaJIT doesn't matter for me, the only thing I miss from it is the FFI. I wish PUC Lua had the same FFI interface tbh.
It does. https://github.com/q66/cffi-lua
One of these days I'll port OpenResty to use PUC Lua and this FFI.