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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.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. 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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.


Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	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.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.