Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.
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The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. | Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. | Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. | 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. |
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Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. | Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. | 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. |