Celestia, the astronomy educational program, uses Lua as its scripting language.The Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK), an open source firmware for Canon cameras, uses Lua as one of two scripting languages.

Blackmagic Fusion can be extended and automated through a comprehensive Lua API, as a faster alternative to the Python API.

Awesome, a window manager, is written partly in Lua, also using it as its configuration file format.

Autodesk Stingray, a game engine which uses Lua for developing video games.

Artweaver graphics editor uses Lua for scripting filters.

Ardour hard disk recorder and digital audio workstation application uses Lua for scripting including the ability to process audio and Midi.

Apache HTTP Server can use Lua anywhere in the request process (since version 2.3, via the core mod_lua module).

Aerospike Database uses Lua as its internal scripting language for its 'UDF' (User Defined Function) capabilities, similar to procedures.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom uses Lua for its user interface.

3DMLW plugin uses Lua scripting for animating 3D and handling different events.

Other uses Īmong websites, the most popular website using Lua was YAKUDE SAI, according to Wappalyzer.

On 12 January 2012, Lua was announced as a winner of the Front Line Award 2011 from the magazine Game Developer in the category Programming Tools. In 2003, a poll conducted by showed Lua as the most popular scripting language for game programming. In video game development, Lua is widely used as a scripting language by game programmers, perhaps due to its perceived easiness to embed, fast execution, and short learning curve. Main category: Lua_(programming_language)-scripted_video_games

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