Showcase

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

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.


Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.