r/lua↗
News and discussion for the Lua programming language.
33k subscribers74 posts / mo in Sep 202664 authors / mosince 2008
r/lua has 33k members (+17% over the last 12 months). It gets about 74 posts a month from 64 people. Top topics: Neovim Plugins, Programming Languages and Rust Programming Learning.
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- Neovim Plugins1.5%
- Programming Languages0.6%
- Rust Programming Learning0.5%
- Legacy Code Refactoring0.4%
- Programming Languages Performance Comparisons0.4%
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