🆚 Erlang vs. Lua
- 📈 Lua is much more popular than Erlang.
- 🌍 Lua is more popular in all countries.
Erlang
LuaType
About
Erlang is a high-level functional programming language designed for building concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems.
It provides lightweight processes with isolated memory and asynchronous message passing, supports hot code swapping without downtime, and includes the Erlang/OTP platform with supervision trees, reusable behaviors, and a standard library for scalable applications.
Lua is a lightweight scripting language designed primarily for embedded use in applications.
It features a small core written in 
C/C++, automatic memory management, fast execution through a simple virtual machine, a flexible table-based data model, and a standard library that fits in a few hundred kilobytes, making it suitable for games, embedded systems, and extensible software.
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- 🔥 11st most popular in Brazil in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United States in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Programming Languages category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Korea in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Australia in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in France in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Russia in the Programming Languages category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.