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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.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. 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.


GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	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.