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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.

"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this) Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.

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. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.


"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.

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.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.