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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. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. 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. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.


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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.