🆚 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.
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.
Ruby is an interpreted, object-oriented, open-source programming language designed for simplicity and productivity, commonly used for web development.
It features a pure object model where everything is an object, dynamic typing, automatic memory management with garbage collection, and a standard library with over 100 built-in modules for tasks such as file handling, networking, and data processing.
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Popularity by country
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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
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Top sites
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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 3,531,690 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.