Showcase

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

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. 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. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable 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.


Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	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.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable 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.