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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. 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. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.


Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	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.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.