Showcase

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

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. 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.

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.


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.	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.

LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua.	Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.