ZeroBrane Studio is described as 'Lightweight Lua IDE with code completion, syntax highlighting, live coding, code analyzer, and debugging support for Lua 5.1, Lua 5.2, Lua 5.3, LuaJIT, and other Lua engines' and is a IDE in the development category. There are four alternatives to ZeroBrane Studio for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD and Snapcraft apps. The best ZeroBrane Studio alternative is Geany, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ZeroBrane Studio are LuaRT Studio, Hacker Pad and Decoda.
Geany is a powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor that provides tons of useful features without bogging down your workflow.
Lightweight Lua IDE for Windows with code completion, syntax highlighting, remote debugger, code analyzer, batteries included, native GUI with GUI Builder, create executable.
Hacker Pad is a convenient scratch pad that allows everyone, especially developer, to quickly jot down ideas and snippets. This comes from the need of my colleagues who struggle with how to quickly write down notes in a convenient way.
Decoda is great to debug multiple lua vm in one process
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ZeroBrane is mainly full featured dev studio for Lua along with debugging. Geany is only "text highlighter" with plugins similar to notepad++ for example or Sublime text