Showcase

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

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.


Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.