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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.


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.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.