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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.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable 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) The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted 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.


Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable 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)	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted 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.