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Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.

Defold is a free engine for professional 2D game development, used at King games and by over 40,000 developers worldwide. All game logic is scripted in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.


Defold is a free engine for professional 2D game development, used at King games and by over 40,000 developers worldwide. All game logic is scripted in Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.