as a winner of the Front Line Award 2011 from the magazine Game Developer in the category Programming Tools. A large number of non-game applications also use Lua for extensibility, such as LuaTeX, an implementation of the TeX type-setting language, Redis, a key-value database, Neovim, a text editor, Nginx, a web server, and Wireshark, a network packet analyzer. Through the Scribunto extension, Lua is available as a server-side scripting language in the MediaWiki software that powers Wikipedia and other wikis. Among its uses are allowing the integration of data from Wikidata into articles, and powering the . Derived languages Languages that compile to Lua MoonScript is a dynamic, whitespace-sensitive scripting language inspired by CoffeeScript, which is compiled into Lua. This means that instead of using do and end (or { and }) to delimit sections of code it uses line breaks and indentation style. A notable usage of MoonScript is the video game distribution website Itch.io. Haxe supports compilation to a Lua target, supporting Lua 5.1-5.3 as well as LuaJIT 2.0 and 2.1. Fennel, a Lisp dialect that targets Lua. Urn, a Lisp dialect that is built on Lua. Amulet, an ML-like functional language, whose compiler outputs Lua files. Dialects LuaJIT Luau from Roblox, Lua 5.1 language with gradual typing and ergonomic additions. Ravi, JIT-enabled Lua 5.3 language with optional static typing. JIT is guided by type information. Shine, a fork of LuaJIT with many extensions, including a module system and a macro system. Glua, a modified version embedded into the game Garrys Mod as its scripting language. Teal, a statically typed lua dialect written in Lua In addition, the Lua users community provides some power patches on top of the reference C implementation. See also Comparison of programming languages References Further reading (The 1st ed. is available online.) Chapters 6 and 7 are dedicated to Lua, while others look at software in Brazil more broadly. Interview with Roberto Ierusalimschy. How the embeddability of Lua impacted its design. Lua papers and theses External links Lua Users, Community Lua Forum LuaDist Lua Rocks - Package manager Projects in Lua Articles with example C code Brazilian inventions Cross-platform free software Cross-platform software Dynamic programming languages Dynamically typed programming languages Embedded systems Free compilers and interpreters Free computer libraries Free software programmed in C Object-oriented programming languages Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro Programming languages Programming languages created in 1993 Prototype-based programming