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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. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. 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.

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.


Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	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.

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.