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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.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.


Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.