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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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.


Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

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.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.