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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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. 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.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in 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.


LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	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.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in 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.