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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.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. 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. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

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. 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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.


Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	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.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

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.	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.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.