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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.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. 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. 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.

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.


Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	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.	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.

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.