Showcase

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

Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, 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. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.


Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel.	Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, 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.	Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua.

Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua.	Wikipedia uses Lua as its template scripting language. Read the announcement.	GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service.	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins.