🆚 Lua vs. Ruby
- 📈 Lua is noticeably more popular than Ruby.
- 🌎 Lua is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
- 🌍 Ruby is more popular in Japan, New Zealand, and Ireland.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Lua
RubyType
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.
An interpreted, object-oriented, open-source programming language often used for web development.
Headquarters
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Categories
Programming Languages › Rank #4
Programming Languages › Rank #5
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Lua programming language is 1.5 times more popular than Ruby.
Total websites
Market share
Programming Languages
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Lua is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Ruby is more popular in Japan, New Zealand, and Ireland.
United States
United Kingdom
India
Germany
Australia
Netherlands
Canada
China
Japan
France
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.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Latvia in the Programming Languages category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in Guatemala in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Australia in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 4th most popular in Germany in the Programming Languages category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Lua is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Ruby is more commonly used on education and reference, recreation and hobbies, and non-profit, advocacy and NGO sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Fashion/Beauty
Business
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Entertainment
Internet Services
Sports
Software/Hardware
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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ASP🗃️ 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 3,367,501 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.