Showcase

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

Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. 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. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.


Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.	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.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.