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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.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.