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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) The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with 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.


"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)	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with 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.