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) | LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. | Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. | Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. |
GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. | 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. | Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. | LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. |