This page uses terms as inside community and outside community. Inside community is the closest, most interested in Lua community: mailing list. Outside community is the interest (based on search) in the internet.
Used dataset: Google Trends. Lua (programming language), Worldwide, 2004-2020.
- Mailing list activity doesn't correlate with outside interest.
- Lua had the highest interest at the time of Lua 5.1.2 release.
- Outside popularity increases for few month when Lua has major release.
Used dataset: GitHub file contents using Google BigQuery.
| Word | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| lua | 4112923 |
| Lua | 845619 |
| LUA | 84281 |
| luA | 55212 |
| LAU | 15643 |
| LUa | 1329 |
| lUa | 981 |
| lUA | 883 |
| LuA | 804 |
| L.U.A | 13 |
Used dataset: lua-l mailing list traffic statistics.
- Mailing list is more active when development of a new version is announced. Continues until the release, then slightly decreases.
- The most active time for the community was from the release of Lua 5.1 to Lua 5.3.
- Outside popularity increases for few month when Lua has major release.
- Most likely, when a Lua Workshop happens, Lua releases new version (from work builds up to major).
- Roberto Ierusalimschy: 5611 messages
- Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo: 6575 messages
- Waldemar Celes: 100 messages
If you thought there was only Roberto left in Lua team, it's not true.