[dasyatidprime]

> LuaJIT is really good software, it is hard to beat it as its own game. Pallene tries to get its edge elsewhere: it tracks Lua 5.4, whereas LuaJIT diverged around 5.1 and will stay that way forever.

Last I saw (admittedly some years ago), this also meant that an awful lot of the authors of Lua libraries/bindings diverged around then and de facto intend to stay that way forever and give up on anything that doesn't have LuaJIT's FFI implementation compared to mainline Lua's C bindings, and then a pile of Lua embedders also did this either because they had to keep tracking that crowd or because they really wanted the performance, and… so on. Unless this has changed in the meantime, I'm not sure what kind of edge you're hoping to get there.