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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.

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. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.


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.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.