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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.

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Corona is a free Lua-based cross-platform framework ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices and desktop systems. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.


Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Corona is a free Lua-based cross-platform framework ideal for rapidly creating apps and games for mobile devices and desktop systems.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.