Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.
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Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. | 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. | LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. |
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"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) | Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. | Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. | The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. |