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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.

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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. 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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.