Showcase

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

Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, 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. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.


Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, 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.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.