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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.

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. "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) GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, 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. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.


Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	"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)	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, 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.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.