Showcase

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

Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. 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.

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


Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	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.

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