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debugger.lua
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slembcke / debugger.lua

debugger.lua

A dependency free, embeddable debugger for Lua in a single file (.lua or .h)

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
926GitHub stars
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What it is

A dependency free, embeddable debugger for Lua in a single file (.lua or .h)

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Where it is used

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 11:56:56 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-18 03:30:13 UTC to 2024-12-27 13:18:25 UTC.

012016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I've found different ways .. if its a simple Lua situation, where you just want to debug pure Lua code, Zerobraine Studio is a pretty good environment to do it and comes with a debugger. I've tried various other Lua debuggers over the years, these are useful: https://github.com/slembcke/debugger.lua https://slembcke.github.io/DebuggerLua You can also use the debug module: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/lua/lua_debugging.htm Otherwise, I just use gdb if needed (JIT/FFI stuff) and printf's. However, I don't really need to debug much these days - more just testing. Its also kind of important to have automated tests and run them frequently with every major change. Another thing I use frequently in my Lua projects, which I think cuts down a lot of the common bugs that might require debugging, is the lua_enumerable.lua utility module: https://
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