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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.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using 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) LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. 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.


Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using 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)	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.