Showcase

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

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. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.


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.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.

GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.