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. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.

Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.


Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.

Solar2D is a free Lua based game engine with focus on ease of iterations and usage. It is a fork of the well established and widely used Corona SDK game engine.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.