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Lua
Who runs Lua, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest programming language alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- PHP
Measured from Lua’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Lua01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Lua
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
02 · Privacy
What Lua tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 6 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Lua’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Lua
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Lua, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
PHP
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Very close - 02 Very close
- 03
Welcome to Python.org
The official home of the Python Programming Language
Very close - 04 Very close
- 05
The LuaJIT Project
JIT compiler for the Lua programming language
Very close - 06
Swift Programming Language
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
Very close - 07
Raku®
The Raku® programming language.
Very close - 08
The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org
The Perl Programming Language at Perl.org. Links and other helpful resources for new and experienced Perl programmers.
Very close - 09
SQLite Home Page
serverless relational database management system (RDBMS)
Very close - 10
The Go Programming Language
Go is an open source programming language that makes it simple to build secure, scalable systems.
Very close - 11
Rust Programming Language
A language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
Very close - 12
Use JSDoc: Index
Official documentation for JSDoc.
Very close - 13
R: The R Project for Statistical Computing
programming language for statistical analysis
Very close - 14
Svelte • Web development for the rest of us
Web development for the rest of us
Very close - 15
Home • Angular
The web development framework for building modern apps.
Very close - 16
Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 17
PostgreSQL: The world's most advanced open source database
The official site for PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database
Very close - 18
Symfony, High Performance PHP Framework for Web Development
Symfony is a web framework and a set of reusable PHP packages to build web applications, APIs, microservices and CLI apps.
Very close - 19
React
React is the library for web and native user interfaces. Build user interfaces out of individual pieces called components written in JavaScript. React is designed to let you seamlessly combine components written by independent people, teams, and organizations.
Very close - 20
AMP - a web component framework to easily create user-first web experiences - amp.dev
Whether you are a publisher, e-commerce company, storyteller, advertiser or email sender, AMP makes it easy to create great experiences on the web. Use AMP to build websites, stories, ads and emails.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Lua’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Lua uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Lua adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 1 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 27 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Lua’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx/1.20.1
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console · not on lua.org 14/20
- Google Workspace · not on lua.org 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on lua.org 7/20
- Fastly · not on lua.org 6/20
- jQuery · not on lua.org 4/20
- Cloudflare · not on lua.org 4/20
- GlobalSign · not on lua.org 4/20
- Font Awesome · not on lua.org 3/20
- Google Fonts · not on lua.org 3/20
- Cloudflare Web Analytics · not on lua.org 2/20
- Mailgun · not on lua.org 2/20
- nginx 2/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on lua.org 2/20
- GitHub Pages · not on lua.org 2/20
- Bootstrap · not on lua.org 2/20
- Google Analytics · not on lua.org 2/20