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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.

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. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.


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.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.