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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.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. 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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.


The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.