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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.

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. 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.

"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) The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.


Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	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.

"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)	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.