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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.

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)

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.


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)

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.