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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.

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in 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. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.


Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in 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.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.