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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.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with 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. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.

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. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.


Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with 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.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.

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.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.