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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. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.


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.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.