Showcase

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

The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. 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.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.


The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	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.

Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.