🆚 Lua vs. Scala
- 📈 Lua is much more popular than Scala.
- 🌎 Lua is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and China.
- 🌍 Scala is more popular in Luxembourg, Puerto Rico, and Mongolia.
Statistics based on 3.3M+ analyzed websites. About this data
Lua
ScalaType
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.
Scala is an object-oriented programming language designed to improve and address the limitations of 
Java.
Headquarters
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Lausanne, Switzerland
Categories
Programming Languages › Rank #4
Programming Languages › Rank #9
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
The Lua programming language is 6 times more popular than Scala.
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 China, while Scala is more popular in Luxembourg, Puerto Rico, and Mongolia.
United States
United Kingdom
China
Germany
India
Australia
Korea
Canada
Netherlands
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 Brazil in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Latvia in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 6th most popular in Uruguay in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in the United States in the Programming Languages category.
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Japan 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 business, while Scala is more commonly used on non-profit, advocacy and NGO, finance and banking, and health sites.
Online Shopping
Marketing/Merchandising
Business
Fashion/Beauty
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Internet Services
Sports
Education/Reference
Travel
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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C#🗃️ 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.