Lua (programming language)

Lua - lightweight programming language. This programming language is the 29^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of programming languages and the 28^th most popular programming language in English Wikipedia. Article "Lua" in English Wikipedia has 63.5 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 55 references and 20 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2025 the article "Lua" was edited by 10 authors in English Wikipedia (8337^th place) and written by 24 authors in all languages (7649^th place).

Since the creation of article "Lua", its content was written by 828 registered users of English Wikipedia (9975^th place) and edited by 2530 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (9955^th place).

Lua is on the 28^th place in local ranking of programming languages in English Wikipedia and on the 29^th place in global ranking of programming languages in all the time.

The article is cited 769 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6198 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1906 in May 2003
• Global: #1341 in April 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #11080 in November 2022
• Global: #16432 in November 2022

There are 49 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hebrew (he) לואה (שפת תכנות)		80.5052
2	Estonian (et) Lua		67.4029
3	Chinese (zh) Lua		65.7977
4	English (en) Lua		63.5497
5	Hungarian (hu) Lua (programozási nyelv)		45.8177
6	Basque (eu) Lua (programazio lengoaia)		44.6678
7	Russian (ru) Lua		43.071
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		38.4194
9	Japanese (ja) Lua		37.7918
10	Min Nan (zhminnan) Lua		36.8512

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lua" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lua		6 768 307
2	Russian (ru) Lua		1 462 731
3	German (de) Lua		950 651
4	Japanese (ja) Lua		686 865
5	French (fr) Lua		601 971
6	Spanish (es) Lua		551 312
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		528 888
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		439 844
9	Polish (pl) Lua		290 863
10	Italian (it) Lua		222 988

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Lua" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Lua		23 315
2	Russian (ru) Lua		5 106
3	German (de) Lua		2 023
4	French (fr) Lua		1 827
5	Japanese (ja) Lua		1 747
6	Spanish (es) Lua		1 706
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		1 502
8	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		1 314
9	Polish (pl) Lua		704
10	Italian (it) Lua		611

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Lua" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lua		828
2	Russian (ru) Lua		194
3	French (fr) Lua		186
4	German (de) Lua		174
5	Japanese (ja) Lua		88
6	Spanish (es) Lua		87
7	Chinese (zh) Lua		86
8	Italian (it) Lua		82
9	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		78
10	Polish (pl) Lua		50

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Lua" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Lua		10
2	Japanese (ja) Lua		2
3	Thai (th) ภาษาลูอา		2
4	Ukrainian (uk) Lua		2
5	German (de) Lua		1
6	Spanish (es) Lua		1
7	French (fr) Lua		1
8	Galician (gl) Lua (linguaxe de programación)		1
9	Latin (la) Lua (lingua programmationis)		1
10	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		1

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Lua" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Lua		769
2	Ukrainian (uk) Lua		450
3	Japanese (ja) Lua		436
4	Russian (ru) Lua		420
5	Chinese (zh) Lua		389
6	Portuguese (pt) Lua (linguagem de programação)		371
7	French (fr) Lua		303
8	Italian (it) Lua		294
9	Polish (pl) Lua		218
10	Persian (fa) لوآ		209

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic لوا (لغة برمجة)
az	Azerbaijani Lua
be	Belarusian Lua (мова праграмавання)
bg	Bulgarian Lua
ca	Catalan Lua
cs	Czech Lua
da	Danish Lua (programmeringssprog)
de	German Lua
el	Greek Lua
en	English Lua
eo	Esperanto Lua
es	Spanish Lua
et	Estonian Lua
eu	Basque Lua (programazio lengoaia)
fa	Persian لوآ
fi	Finnish Lua
fr	French Lua
gl	Galician Lua (linguaxe de programación)
he	Hebrew לואה (שפת תכנות)
hi	Hindi लुआ (प्रोग्रामन भाषा)
hr	Croatian Lua
hu	Hungarian Lua (programozási nyelv)
hy	Armenian Lua (ծրագրավորման լեզու)
id	Indonesian Lua (bahasa pemrograman)
it	Italian Lua
ja	Japanese Lua
ka	Georgian ლუა
ko	Korean 루아 (프로그래밍 언어)
la	Latin Lua (lingua programmationis)
ms	Malay Lua (bahasa pengaturcaraan)
nl	Dutch Lua (programmeertaal)
no	Norwegian Lua
pl	Polish Lua
pt	Portuguese Lua (linguagem de programação)
ro	Romanian Lua (limbaj de programare)
ru	Russian Lua
simple	Simple English Lua
sk	Slovak Lua
sl	Slovenian Lua (programski jezik)
sr	Serbian Lua (programski jezik)
sv	Swedish Lua
ta	Tamil லூவா
th	Thai ภาษาลูอา
tr	Turkish Lua
uk	Ukrainian Lua
ur	Urdu لوا (پروگرامنگ زبان)
vi	Vietnamese Lua
zh	Chinese Lua
zhminnan	Min Nan Lua

Best Rank

English: #11080 11.2022

Global: #16432 11.2022

Best Rank

English: #1906 05.2003

Global: #1341 04.2020

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