Lua is used in many products and projects around the world. Here are some highlights. A different selection is shown every day.
Snort, a popular network intrusion prevention and detection system, is scriptable with Lua. | GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. | Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. | Players of World of Warcraft use Lua to customize the game interface. |
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is mostly written in Lua. Lightroom also supports Lua plug-ins. | Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted 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. | Defold is a free engine for professional 2D game development, used at King games and by over 40,000 developers worldwide. All game logic is scripted in Lua. |