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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Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. | "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) | Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable 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. |
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Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. | Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. | 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. |