2022年3月编程语言排行榜：Lua重新回到前20

脚本语言Lua重新回到了TIOBE排行榜的前20名。在2011年的鼎盛时期，Lua曾短暂进入前10名。这是否会再次发生尚不清楚。但很明显，Lua在游戏开发市场正在迎头赶上：易于学习、执行速度快、与C接口简单，这使得Lua成为这项工作的理想人选。Lua最近取得成功的推动力之一是非常流行的游戏平台Roblox，这个平台使用Lua作为其主要的编程语言。

--Paul Jansen CEO TIOBE Software

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The TIOBE Programming Community index is an indicator of the popularity of programming languages. The index is updated once a month. The ratings are based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors. Popular search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo!, Wikipedia, Amazon, YouTube and Baidu are used to calculate the ratings. It is important to note that the TIOBE index is not about the best programming language or the language in which most lines of code have been written.

The index can be used to check whether your programming skills are still up to date or to make a strategic decision about what programming language should be adopted when starting to build a new software system. The definition of the TIOBE index can be found here.