Hey everyone, This is a question I've been thinking about for some time; although my wording may come off as a bit aggressive to some, please know that that is not my intent. This is an aspect of the Lua language and community that I'm rather curious about; if this thread devolves into a sort of flame war, please feel free to ignore it, or, if you have admin privileges, close it. So, the question is (if you couldn't tell from the title): why did the authors of Lua decide to adopt a closed development process, and why does this continue to this day? By "closed development process", I mean that unlike Perl, Python, Ruby, and other popular open source languages, the canonical implementation's development is done by an exclusive group, and the "work in progress" tree is not visible to the public. I find this very interesting, especially considering how liberal Lua's license is. I think it would be cool it other developers would be able to directly contribute to Lua's development, but maybe I haven't spent enough time thinking about this. =) Thanks, Rob
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