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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. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.


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.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.