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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. 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. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.


LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	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.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.