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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Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. | Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. | Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. | GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. |
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Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. | Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. | Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. | 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. |