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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 popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. 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. 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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	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.	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.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.