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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.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. 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.

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. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.


The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	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.

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.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.