Showcase

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

Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. 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. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.


Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	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.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.