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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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. 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.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	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.