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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. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. 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.


Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.