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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.

"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this) Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.

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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.


"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.

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.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.