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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Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. | Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. | LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. |
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Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. | 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. | "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) | Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. |