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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 used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.


The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.