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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.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, 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. 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.

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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.


Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, 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.	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.

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.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.