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. Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, 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. 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.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.


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.	Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.	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.

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.