Showcase

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

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. 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. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.


Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	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.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.