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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.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in 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. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.


The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in 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.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.