🆚 Lua vs. Perl
- 📈 Lua is much more popular than Perl.
- 🌍 Lua is more popular in all countries.
Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data
LuaType
Programming language
Programming language
About
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.
Perl is a high-level, scripting, dynamically typed programming language.
Headquarters
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Categories
Programming Languages › Rank #4
Programming Languages › Rank #13
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Lua programming language is 36 times more popular than Perl.
Total websites
Market share
Programming Languages
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lua is more popular than Perl in all countries.
United States
United Kingdom
China
India
Germany
Korea
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
Japan
Awards
- 🥉 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.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Poland in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 8th most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Russia in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 9th most popular in Chile in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 10th most popular in Hong Kong in the Programming Languages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lua is more popular than Perl in all market segments.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Sports
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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Java🗃️ About This Data
- 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 3,406,701 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.