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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.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. 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. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.


Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	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.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.