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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.

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

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.


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

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.