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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.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. 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.


Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	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.