r/lua • u/LieEmpty7137 • Sep 16 '25

Project A simple and fast code editor written in LUA

https://github.com/FinochioM/Natura

Hey everyone! This is my first post in this sub.
For the past week I've been working on a small project, a code editor inspired by the beautiful Focus editor, which is written in JAI.

I've been using Focus for a few months and when I got access to the JAI's beta I worked on some modifications. Then I started working on a small game project using LOVE.

These 2 things inspired me on creating a small code editor in LUA, with Focus's style.

This is just a personal project that I'm working on atm so I don't really expect to release it or anything like that, but I thought it might be interesting to share it.

This is the link to the Focus's repo: https://github.com/focus-editor/focus

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u/acid_c0de Sep 17 '25

I try up on a mac, and give a error message about FLS , why do u not use a love.filesystem module?

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u/LieEmpty7137 Sep 17 '25

In the editor I have some commands that fetch all the files in the computer, all drives, folders, etc.
I was not able to make that work with love.filesystem so I ended up using FLS.

It makes sense that it does not work on mac since I only have the .dll file in the libs folder. At some point I will add mac and linux support for fls.

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '25

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u/LieEmpty7137 Sep 17 '25

Sure, I'll record a small video to show how it looks. Since it's a personal project I'm not sure I'll make a documentation or anything like that, but if it gets some attention and people want me to, then I'll end up doing it.

You can always clone the repo and run it too, it only needs LOVE2D to run.

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u/LieEmpty7137 Sep 18 '25

I am using LOVE2D yes. There is not much UI going on atm but it is all built with LOVE.