There are remote debuggers for Lua, like Zerobrane Studio (http://studio.zerobrane.com/ http://studio.zerobrane.com/), that allows to patch the code at runtime,

There are remote debuggers for Lua, like Zerobrane Studio (http://studio.zerobrane.com/ http://studio.zerobrane.com/), that allows to patch the code at runtime, enabling live coding, or Koneki (http://www.eclipse.org/koneki/ldt/ http://www.eclipse.org/koneki/ldt/). I know there's more, see here for the full list of IDEs: http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaIntegratedDevelopmentEnvironments http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaIntegratedDevelopmentEnvironmen...