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. Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using 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. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.


Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using 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.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.