Showcase

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

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.


Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.