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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.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. 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.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in 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.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	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.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.