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Dev tools · June 1, 2012

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Live coding in Lua with ZeroBrane Studio

Live coding in Lua with ZeroBrane Studio launched on June 1, 2012 with 34 votes, #54 of 409 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 14 years on.

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In plain words

ZeroBrane Studio is a lightweight Lua integrated development environment designed for learning programming. It emphasizes live coding, enabling developers to see changes in their code immediately without waiting for traditional compile-run cycles. The IDE allows programmers to explore different options and parameters in real-time, following principles of interactive design that prioritize direct connection between creators and their work.

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I was working on a lightweight Lua IDE for those who want to learn programming when I came across Bret Victor's Inventing On Principle and Kill Math projects. If you haven't seen them before, I recommend you spend a bit of time listening to his ideas about interactive design. Just don't close this page and come back when you're done as I'll show you how you can do some of it with Lua scripts today. The core part of the message is that designers need an immediate connection to their creations and even a short update-run-use loop may be too long to explore a variety of different options, parameters, and their interactions. Sometimes the relations or dependencies between variables become more…from notebook.kulchenko.com

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