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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.

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. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

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. 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.


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.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.

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.	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.