It’s from a simple fact that there are rocks that were not maintained seriously (as in “business”), and there are big embedders that work as version anchors. As a result, rocks were full of 5.?-specific at the times of 5.2/3, cause people have no time nor desire to reimplement things. Idk how it is now, but my bet is on nothing changed, some popular libs became multi-headed. Lua-http doesn’t even list 5.4 as a target. Maybe 5.4=5.3, can’t remember. But if daurnimator decided to ignore it, oh my.
As of motivation, I guess the best source is their mailing list around release dates. It was hot every time. Idk if anyone blogged about it, maybe just ask there.
As of motivation, I guess the best source is their mailing list around release dates. It was hot every time. Idk if anyone blogged about it, maybe just ask there.