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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 popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in 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. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.

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. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. 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.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in 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.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.

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.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.