Showcase

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

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. 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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.


LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.