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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.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. 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. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. 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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.


Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	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.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	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.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.