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Re:Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, ... by yakubin on Sunday May 23, 2021 @05:53PM (#27258951)
Lua is also used for:

- AwesomeWM configuration

- Wireshark dissectors

- Nmap scripting

Re:Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, ... by mdaniel on Sunday May 23, 2021 @09:37PM (#27260331)
And OpenResty extensions (and sometimes configuration of the built-in ones), as one can see in use by the nginx kubernetes ingress controller

IIRC the Kong api gateway uses it in a similar way

There's a Lua interpreter in Redis, too