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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.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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.

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. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.


Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.

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.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.