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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.

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with 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) 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.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.


Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with 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)	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.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.