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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Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. | Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. | Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. | The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. |
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LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. | The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. | Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted 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. |