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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. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, 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. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.


Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, 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.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.