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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. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. 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.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.