Debugging in Lua has been a strange experience for me. The debugging tools are not as rich as the Python or C++ tooling I’m accustomed to.
Two useful items are LOVEDEBUG, developed by several members of the community and DataDumper from the lua users wiki.
Since we’ve camped on version 10.2, the current versions floating around won’t work for these projects.
I’m switching the debugger on and off using an environment variable to prevent it to interfere with gra…