Showcase

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

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with 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. 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. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.


Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with 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.	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.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.