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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.

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. 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. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. 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. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded 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.	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.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.