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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.

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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. "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) Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with 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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	"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)	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.