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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.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.


Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.