Showcase

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

"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this) Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.


"Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.