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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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. 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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. 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. 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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	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.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.