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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 used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Defold is a free engine for professional 2D game development, used at King games and by over 40,000 developers worldwide. All game logic is scripted in Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.


The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Defold is a free engine for professional 2D game development, used at King games and by over 40,000 developers worldwide. All game logic is scripted in Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.