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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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. |
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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. |