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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.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. 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. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. 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.


Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	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.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	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.