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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.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.


Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.