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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.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using 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.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. 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. 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. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.


LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using 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.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	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.	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.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.