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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.

Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. "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) Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.

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. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.


Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	"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)	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.

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.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.