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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. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. 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. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with 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) 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. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	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.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with 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)	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.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.