Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.
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LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. | Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. | Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. | Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. |
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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. | Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua. | Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. |