IntelliJ or Zerobrane?

[yeau]

I've configured both to run lua love scripts but I am just curious as what peeps here on the forums prefer? Is there any advantages to either? If it helps, I'm still in lua 5.2

cheers

[raidho36]

A lot of people don't use any IDE whatsoever. Those are extremely heavyweight and 100% of their useful functionality already exist in regular text editors, such as Visual Studio Code. Which is to say, there are no advantages to use any IDE, much less any specific one.

[yeau]

A lot of people don't use any IDE whatsoever. Those are extremely heavyweight and 100% of their useful functionality already exist in regular text editors, such as Visual Studio Code. Which is to say, there are no advantages to use any IDE, much less any specific one.

Is ZeroBrane heavyweight? Is there any disadvantage to using it? (sorry, am still new to lualang, I come from webdesign and python/game)

[YounYokel]

I personally choose Notepad++ or Atom.

[zorg]

To some people, integrated debugging facilities, variable watching, integrated consoles are something they want to have; in that case, Zerobrane is good. IDK about IntelliJ though. As for myself, i just use sublimetext2, because i don't need those things, not even autocomplete.

[JesseWebb]

I prefer ZeroBrane, personally. I only used IntelliJ for a short time, so maybe I didn't give it enough of a chance. ZeroBrane just seemed more intuitive and easy to use, for some reason. Plus, it's more lightweight in comparison (as far as I remember).

[monolifed]

SciTe.
You can add your own commands etc

[raidho36]

To some people, integrated debugging facilities, variable watching, integrated consoles are something they want to have.

VSCode supports those, as any decent text editor should. IDK maybe on Windows it's an oddity you needed to use IDE for, but Linux editors had those features for ages.

[grump]

Aside from console output, a typical text editor does not have Lua code debugging features.