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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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in 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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.


Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in 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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.