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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.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. "Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this) Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable 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. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.


LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable 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.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.