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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.

Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.


Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.