FWIW, I have noticed some run-time differences with VS2015.
Lua 5.3 builds fine with VS2015 but does not run the same even though it
passes all Lua tests fine.
I haven’t figured out what the problem is. (Everything in the build
process except the compiler is the same.)
For the example below, a VS2013 produced Lua53 binary has correct output,
while a VS2015 version has no output at all.
print(io.popen('mode con'):read('*a'))
The output from VS2013 built Lua 5.3 is like this:
Status for device CON:
----------------------
Lines:
500
Columns:
164
Keyboard rate: 31
Keyboard
delay: 1
Code page:
737
The Lua source distribution builds and runs just fine
on Visual Studio (Community - free - Edition) on Windows 10. At least VS 2015
and 32-bit, ...