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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.

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. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. 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.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.