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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.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. 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. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.


The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	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.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.