Atom alternatives

[LordGaga]

Hello,

I am using Love2D on Mac again after a few years of hiatus. I used to work with Atom but apparently it had been shutdown. Are there alternatives as easy to use as this one ? I'm trying to work with VSCode but it seems very hard to make a program open on Love2D with it without using the Terminal. Can you enlighten me please ?

[keharriso]

VS Code is great! Try this guide: https://sheepolution.com/learn/book/bonus/vscode

[LordGaga]

Thank you so much for the quick reply ! The guide seems to be for Windows users, is there any resources for Mac ?

[keharriso]

Hopefully someone that uses Mac will come along and help out. I think the guide should work just the same for Mac, but you will need to add the love executable to your PATH environment variable. From some basic searching, it looks like you can do this through the /etc/paths file.

[LordGaga]

Thank you so much !

[MrFariator]

I personally use Sublime Text, thought I'd mention it since I use it on Windows, Linux and Mac. Setting it up can be a bit of a pain, at least for me since there are a lot of settings I tend to turn off or change.

[togFox]

I still use Atom even though it is discontinued. I think Pulsar is the name of the new tool but I haven't looked into it.

[marclurr]

I started using Zed a week ago and so far I like it better than VS Code. The lua language support seems a lot more intelligent than the VS Code one. It does have its weird bugs still though but nothing that knackeres productivity. Time will tell if I go back to old faithful though.

[dusoft]

Try Sublime.

[ddabrahim]

I use VS Code but lately I did experiment with the Geany IDE and I am surprised why is it not getting any more attention among Love2D developers. It is cross-platform truly, available even for many 32bit systems, very small, lightweight and super easy to configure and add custom languages, build commands and tools to run directly from the IDE. It seems to be super easy to setup for Lua and Love2D development.