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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.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.

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. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.

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.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.