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. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. 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. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.


The widely popular game Angry Birds is mostly written in Lua. See a talk by Jaakko Lisalo at the Game Design Expo 2011.	LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface.

Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.	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.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.