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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. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

"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) 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. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.


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.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.

"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)	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.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.