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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.

"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) 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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable 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)	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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.