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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.

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. 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.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. 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.


LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	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.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.