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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.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. "Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this) Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.


Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.