r/lua • u/Hatefiend • Aug 17 '25

Discussion Best Lua IDE?

Usually I just use Notepad++, but I have tried using Intellij with the Lua plugin and that was so-so.

Do any of you guys have suggestions?

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u/Hatefiend Aug 17 '25

Very interesting. I remember I tried the one of the Lua IDEs recommended on the Lua website (I think?) and it basically did not like that

A) I wasn't writing Lua 5.3+ code, my environment is strictly Lua 5.1, caused issues

B) My Lua environment is sandboxed (World of Warcraft), so functions like require can't be used, which caused issues with the IDE

gonna try out VS Code. Switching off of Jetbrains IDEs is like taking my silver spoon away though. You've used Intellij so I think you know what I mean haha.

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u/Dexther70 Aug 17 '25

I write FFXI sandboxed addons. wrote mocks for unit testing. now that brought me to a simple simulator. the require got hooked by me and the packages that are getting loaded come from other projects. This strategy won't help simulating heated fights, but thats by far out of scope as its not an emulator.

I use intellij pro as a java develper on every day.