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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.

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

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.


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

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.