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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.

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. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

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. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. 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.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

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.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.