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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. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. 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. "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)


Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	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.	"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)