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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. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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.


The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.