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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.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. 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.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. Defold is a free engine for professional 2D game development, used at King games and by over 40,000 developers worldwide. All game logic is scripted in Lua.


Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	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.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Defold is a free engine for professional 2D game development, used at King games and by over 40,000 developers worldwide. All game logic is scripted in Lua.