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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. "Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this) Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. 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.


The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	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.