Lua Showcase

Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.

Blackmagic Fusion Hammerspoon LÖVE Neovim
Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.
Cisco VLC Adobe Photoshop Lightroom LuaTeX
Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.