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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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with 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)

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. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with 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)

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.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.