Showcase

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

Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games 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.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.


Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games 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.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.