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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.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.


Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.