Showcase

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


Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua.	Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted 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.	Nmap, a popular tool for network discovery and security auditing, is scriptable with Lua.

The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.	Neovim is a popular hyperextensible Vim-based text editor that supports Lua plugins.	Wireshark, a popular network protocol analyzer, is scriptable with Lua.	LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language.