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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.

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. 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.

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.


Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	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.

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.