Lua Showcase

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

Snort Solar2D Volvo Grim Fandango
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. Volvo cars like the V40 Cross Country embed Lua in their combined instrument panel. "Grim Fandango was the first game that shows Lua could not only be used to make a good game, but that it could be used to make some of the best games ever." (cited here; see also this)
VLC Roblox Cisco LÖVE
The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. LÖVE is a free framework for making 2D games in Lua.