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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. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. 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. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.


Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	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.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.