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More people use Lua than Javascript? lol

• Impossible 15y ago
  This seemed strange to me also. Lua shot way up and is currently right ahead of Javascript and right below Perl and Python. TIOBE attributes it to iPhone apps, which is probably helping but still wouldn't put it past Javascript. A lot of people write Lua scripts for World of Warcraft UI mods but WoW has been around forever and is actually waning in popularity, not rising. Maybe its the hype around LuaJIT being the dynamic scripting language the best performance?
  • d0m 15y ago
    I think there are more Website containing javascript than any WoW plugins.
    • Impossible 15y ago
      Oh yeah, there definitely are by a far margin. I'm just grasping for straws trying to figure out why Lua would have jumped so much. I know TIOBE isn't the end all be all of programming language usage or popularity but something had to cause Lua to jump so high in their rankings in the last year.