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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.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.


Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.