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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.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. 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.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. "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.


Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	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.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	"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.