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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The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. | The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. | "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) |
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LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. | Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. | Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. | Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. |