I've spent a fair amount of time looking at the debug library in Lua. It's too much work to write my own debugger using it. (I'd have to debug the debugger.) There is an alternate solution that someone created known as debugger.lua.


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Tags: Lua, debugging, debugger

Last time I started looking into how to debug Lua code and discovered it's really a form of introspection and doesn't feel, to me, like true debugging. Today, I'll continue looking at this capability. Read More…

Tags: Lua, debugging, debug.sethook, line hook, return hook, call hook

I'm using Lua in various ways. I'm playing around with an environment, Codea, and need a way to debug my code. Today, I try to find an answer that works in Lua. Read More…

Tags: Lua, debugging, debug, getinfo, getlocal