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. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with 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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.


Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with 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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.