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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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.


LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.