So love.js doesn't support goto?

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

I just tried to port one of my games to love.js (I used makelove to build) but it turns out it gives a syntax error for goto since it uses an old version of lua(?). My "engine" (a looot of reused code and libs in a folder) use gotos probably quite often. Is there truly no workaround but to rewrite aaall those sections?

[dusoft]

OT: "Gotos baaad"

[pgimeno]

goto is a Lua 5.2 thing, and LuaJIT implements it as an extension. However, love.js can't run LuaJIT and runs PUC Lua 5.1 instead, as far as I know, so I'm afraid you're out of luck.

You can always try to compile your own PUC Lua 5.1 backporting the goto extension from 5.2, but I guess that's not an option for you. The only remaining one is to hope that some time in the future, LuaJIT implements WebAssembly.

[Gunroar:Cannon()]

Yeah, thanks everyone. It seems gotos really are bad overall. I only had like 5 in my whole +100 file code base I think.l, so even libraries don't use it that much.