🆚 Lua vs. PHP
- 📈 PHP is much more popular than Lua.
- 🌎 PHP is more popular in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom.
- 🌍 Lua is more popular in Norfolk Island.
Lua
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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.
PHP (originally named "Personal Home Page" and now defined as the recursive acronym "PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely used server-side scripting language for building dynamic web applications.
It features dynamic typing, flexible string interpolation, garbage collection, a large standard library, built-in handling of sessions, cookies, forms, and file uploads, native integration with numerous databases, and, since PHP 8, additional improvements such as just-in-time compilation, union types, attributes, and enums.
Headquarters
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
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.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Platforms category.
- 🥇 Most popular in France in the Platforms category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
Technologies with similar characteristics.
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Go
Hack🗃️ 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 3,375,483 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.