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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Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. | Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. | Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, 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. |
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Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. | The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011. | Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages. | Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. |