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Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:47 am
by schaka
What do you guys use?
Personally, I've been using Lua Development Tools for the past year or so. The last time I touched anything seriously, before Questie, was in 2013 though. So I wondered if there are any new tools I should be aware of?

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:37 am
by LYQ
gotta check that out,

tbh I'm only using Brackets nowaday - Brackets was meant to use for web development but it became my favorite because of the easy switch between multiple projects - I've always like 10+ projects open and under development at a time, or maybe multiple versions of the same project for which I switch back and forth and it's fast and saves the last lines I worked at etc.

before that I only used Notepad++ but it took way more time to work with

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 8:56 am
by schaka
I used to use Notepad++ and it was just way too slow for my taste. I use Eclipse at work all the time, it has a great built in GUI for Git and I'm used to all the shortcuts. So I figured it would be the best choice for Lua too. Haven't looked back since I switched.

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 9:46 am
by modernist
i use atom with the lua language pack installed

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 9:47 am
by Renew
i just downloaded Lua Glider (Trial version) - seems pretty much ok to me
worked with Notepad++ before, but it becomes too slow when you have a bigger project :/

http://i.imgur.com/nAjqJ4m.png

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 9:59 am
by Roadblock
I've used LDT in the past and still have it installed but I mostly do all my scripting that doesn't require a full blown IDE currently with Sublime3 + plugins.
Cross platform, superfast.

I got good things to say about Atom, Brackets and UltraEdit but they each have their strong and weak points, Sublime3 is just 4/5 5/5 across the board for me.

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:00 am
by Shagu
Atom with lua bindings is quite nice, but most of the time i find myself in vim instead of "booting" atom.

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:05 am
by Roadblock
Forgot to add for anyone already using JetBrains IntellijIDEA (payware to get the most out of it, but excellent IDEs) Sylvanaar's Lua for IDEA plugin is very good.

You might know him as the author of Prat (the ubiquitus chat addon) from retail.

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:41 am
by Renew
after Lua Glider crashed 2 times, i tried Atom - its rly cool IDE :)

def. worth a try!

http://i.imgur.com/JwPHGcs.png

Re: Lua IDE/Editor

PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:15 am
by AfterAfterlife
Notepad++ for easy/quick stuff, usually backports.
LDT for new projects. Since I'm used to Eclipse for Java development, it was really fast to get into LDT because they share the same "ambient".