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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.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, 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. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in 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. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.


Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, 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.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in 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.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.