ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support for Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3, LuaJIT, and other Lua engines.
It is simple and instantly usable for beginners yet feature-rich and extensible for experienced developers. It has a small footprint and is completely customizable with Lua while still including a full IDE feature set including a remote debugger.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Auto-completion for functions, keywords, and custom APIs
- Syntax highlighting and folding for 110+ languages and file formats
- Project view with auto-refresh and ability to hide files and directories from the list
- Interactive console to test Lua code snippets with local and remote execution
- Integrated debugger with support for local and remote debugging, including cross-platform and on-device debugging
- Live coding with Lua, LÖVE, Gideros, Moai, Corona, GSL-Shell and other Lua engines.
- Multi-language support with translations to French, Spanish, Russian, German, Chinese, Esperanto, Italian, Bulgarian, and Brazilian Portuguese languages and documentation to add your own;50+ extension packages in the package repository.
- Fuzzy search for files, symbols, and library functions, function outline, and more.
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: studio.zerobrane.com
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Paul Kulchenko
License: MIT License
ZeroBrane Studio is written in Lua. Learn Lua with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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