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Lua Showcase

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

Hammerspoon GitHub Roblox Blackmagic Fusion
Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS using Lua scripting. GitHub uses Lua scripts in the infrastructure of GitHub Pages, its static site hosting service. Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system that hosts user-created games of multiple genres coded in Lua. Blackmagic Fusion, a post-production image compositing software used extensively in the movie industry, uses Lua as one of its embedded scripting languages.
Celestia LuaTeX Cisco VLC
Celestia is a real-time 3D visualization of space that can be scripted with Lua. LuaTeX, the engine behind most modern installations of TeX, uses Lua as its embedded scripting language. Cisco IP Cameras can be controlled using Lua. The widely used VLC media player is scriptable in Lua.

Last update: Thu May 21 05:00:01 UTC 2026