Showcase

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

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.


Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.