Showcase

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

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.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted 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.


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.

LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted 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.