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. | Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. | Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. |
Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. | Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. | Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. | Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. |