Difference between bit and bit32

[Collinor]

What is the difference between bit and bit32 in CraftOS, and is there any plan to add 'bit64' in the future?

[SquidDev]

bit32 comes from Lua 5.2, and is the recommended way to perform bit opeations.

CC used to use Lua 5.1, and so didn't have bit32,so had its own bit library. Nowadays, the bit library is just a copy of bit32, but with slightly different function names. There's no reason to use this nowadays.

Lua 5.2 represents all numbers with 64 bit doubles, so can only accurately represent 51-bit integers. We can't have a bit64, as it'd produce some nonsense numbers.

[Collinor]

Thanks, got it