Is it possible to set breakpoints in LUA example code projects? I'm pretty new to LUA development and I'm not sure what IDE to use and how to start debugging LUA code. Thanks!

Breakpoints do work on Windows, I use VSCode with the Playdate debug extension that @midouest created and pointed to higher up in the thread, which is also recommended in Inside Playdate , and it's been working very well.

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That's for C debugging is it not. The poster was asking about Lua debugging. I'm starting to get the impression that nobody is using Lua for development much.

oh it was mostly that I have seen many more questions about C and C APIs and how to write in C than I have about Lua. Perhaps the dev boards however aren't representative of all the work which is going on and most people just use the SDK the way it came and don't have a ton of questions. It would b…

I'm currently developing my first game in Lua and I can get by not using the debugger. Having said that as the game becomes more complex, I have a feeling that I'll eventually wish I had one. I'm currently using the Linux variant SDK with VSCode. @matt @rols looking around the forums on the topic …

Yes the only debugging anyone seems to have been able to do is in Nova which has/had hooks for it. However if you flip over to this thread https://devforum.play.date/t/how-to-invoke-the-debugger/382/8 you can see matt has kindly responded that debugging will be in the NEXT version of Nova (which mea…

I’m developping my game with Lua. I’m using the Nova beta for breakpoints and debugging and it works well for me so far. There used to be a link toward a beta version of Nova here but I can’t find it anymore. I was confirmed some time ago that breakpoints and debugger only works on the beta, not th…

.. and works exactly as you'd hope. Thanks very much. So now we have a way to debug Lua on MacOS at least (which works for me). I will ask if the debug API might make it into documentation one day so that perhaps a debug module could be written for vscode.

I will ask if the debug API might make it into documentation one day so that perhaps a debug module could be written for vscode. The Playdate Simulator responds to the Debug Adapter Protocol . Here's a Playdate debugger extension for VS Code I hacked together last night: Playdate Debug - Visual S…

I've been using Lua debug with the beta for quite some time now and it works well. So I assume Nova 9 should be even better. Time to switch out from the beta branch!

Looks like the VSCode debugger extension does not work on Windows at the moment. Panic devs, does the Playdate Simulator run the Debug Adapter Protocol on Windows/Linux?

Using breakpoints with LUA code

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Whitebrim (Denisov Yaroslav) March 6, 2022, 3:38am 3