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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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. "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)

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.


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.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	"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)

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.