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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.

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. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.


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.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.