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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. 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. 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.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.


Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.	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.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.