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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. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.


Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.