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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.

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

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. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.


Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

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.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.