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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. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. 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.


The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	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.