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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.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

"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) Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

"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)	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.