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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.

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. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.


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.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.