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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.

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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable 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. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded 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.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable 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.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.