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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.

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. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. 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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.


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.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	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.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.