Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.
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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. | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. | 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. |
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The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. | Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. | Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. | Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. |