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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.

"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this) LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. 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.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. 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. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.


"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	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.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	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.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.